ryan on Nostr: This might not be pollution reasons but I encountered a problem with ZFS about six ...
This might not be pollution reasons but I encountered a problem with ZFS about six months ago where copying files and running a du command to find the number of blocks that the files use on disk would return the wrong value (low by a lot) if I ran it within a couple seconds of copying the files. Ext4 doesn’t exhibit this issue. This was causing issues with GitLab CI on a particular project that was using the blocks used on disk as a metric for creating a file system large enough to include the copied files. It took a while to figure that out and the eventual workaround was to make the CI runners run on ext4 on top of ZFS. I guess we could have modified the project code being compiled in CI to wait 5 or 10 seconds before getting the block count, but my thought was I shouldn’t have to modify the Makefile to workaround this issue.
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