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ryao ◴[17 Apr 25 04:59 UTC] No.43713252[source]▶

The moment I saw this title, I imagined this on ZFS:

  $ truncate -s 1G testfile
  $ du testfile
  1       testfile
  $ du -b testfile
  1073741824      testfile

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1. ndsipa_pomu ◴[17 Apr 25 07:45 UTC] No.43714109[source]▶

That's a sparse file - you'd get the same on just about any Linux filesystem regardless of compression

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2. ryao ◴[17 Apr 25 19:24 UTC] No.43721061[source]▶

It shows the two different file sizes.

Unix files have (at least) two sizes