From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-08-11T17:43:49+09:00
Subject: Re: File size descrepancy via IO#write or IO#syswrite

On 11/08/05, Zach Dennis <zdennis@mktec.com> wrote:
> Zach Dennis wrote:
> > 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,
> 
> After restarting the ruby process, the problem still occurred. After
> rebooting the linux server, the problem went away.
> 
> Zach
> 
> 
Just a wild guess:
Maybe you were shown the space the file occupied, this may be more due
to the block structure of the filesystem.

regards,

Brian

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