From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2005-08-11T06:31:32+09:00
Subject: File size descrepancy via IO#write or IO#syswrite

I have a gzipped xml file, which I get from a Java Client on a Windows 
machine. The file size is 9934 bytes. I send a MD5 sum with my transmission.

I send this file over the network to a Linux server. I receive 9934 
bytes (i run MD5.hexdigest to make sure the received file is the same as 
the one sent).

When I write the file to disk the file on disk has 11214 bytes to it.

Ruby tells me that it wrote 9934 bytes, but the filesystem is showing me 
different.

Any clues? Thanks,

Zach