Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> wrote: > >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2016-07/msg00000.html > >> > >> At the time, Joerg Schilling unilaterally refused to fix the bug, > >> claiming that Btrfs was broken and violated POSIX, although when asked > >> for a reference to back that up he never provided one. Everyone else in > >> the thread disagreed with him, but the bug never got fixed. > > > > Of course I provided that reference by pointing to the POSIX standard. > > Please quote the relevant excerpts regarding the constraints on > st_blocks in relation to the file contents, along with links to the > official online text containing those excerpts.
I did this 18 months ago already.... http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_stat.h.html blkcnt_t st_blocks Number of blocks allocated for this object. I hope I do not need to explain the term "allocated". Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sf.net/projects/schilytools/files/'
