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bug#53194: System test partition.img differs in size across hosts(?)
From: |
Leo Famulari |
Subject: |
bug#53194: System test partition.img differs in size across hosts(?) |
Date: |
Fri, 4 Feb 2022 00:23:30 -0500 |
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 08:44:11PM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports
for GNU Guix wrote:
> The most likely culprit is a change or difference in how the kernel answers
> FILE-SIZE's ‘how much disc space does FILE consume?’ — rounding it to N
> blocks or bytes, including or excluding directory sizes, differing reported
> directory sizes, etc.
I'm going to build the version of the kernel used on berlin and test
with that.
I do find myself wondering if something in Guix is measuring the wrong
thing: maybe we are measuring the size of files compressed in transit,
rather than their uncompressed size on disk. Or something like that.