I don't know if this is related or not: from a conversation I had before, ext4 divide the files into chunks with power of two size to prevent long term free space fragmentation, so a 800 MB files would be written as a 512mb chunk, then 256mb chunk and so on...
-- in-place corruption of large files *without fsck or reboot* reported with linux 2.6.31-14.46 on ext4 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/453579 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
