Re: [Bug-tar] stat() on btrfs reports the st_blocks with delay (data loss in archivers)

[Paul Eggert]

On 07/06/2016 05:09 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
you concur that a delayed assignment of the "correct" value for
st_blocks while the contend of the file does not change is not permitted.
I'm not sure I agree even with that. A file system may undergo garbage 
collection and compaction, for instance, in which a file's data do not 
change but its internal representation does.