df bigger than ls?

Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz arekm at maven.pl
Thu Mar 8 02:04:12 CST 2012


On Wednesday 07 of March 2012, Eric Sandeen wrote:

> XFS speculatively preallocates space off the end of a file.  The amount of
> space allocated depends on the present size of the file, and the amount of
> available free space.  This can be overridden
> with mount -o allocsize=64k (or other size for example)

What was the default before speculative preallocation was added (or changed 
somewhere in 2.6.3x line afaik) ?

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