GNU bug report logs - #53194
System test partition.img differs in size across hosts(?)

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 53194 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 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.

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