Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:17:41 +0200 (CEST) | From | Tim Schmielau <> | Subject | Re: data loss in 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 |
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> $ uname -r > 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 > > $ dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=$((1024*1024)) count=10 > 10+0 records in > 10+0 records out > 10485760 bytes transferred in 0.028418 seconds (368981986 bytes/sec) > > $ du -sb testfile > 10485760 testfile > > $ cat testfile > testfile.1 > > $ du -sb testfile.1 > 10481664 testfile.1
What does ls -l testfile.1 give? What you describe actually can be correct behaviour, since the file is all zeros.
Although yes, it seems highly improbable someone implemented an optimization that cuts away just one of 2560 pages.
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