On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 2:04 AM, Peter Jeremy <pe...@rulingia.com> wrote:
> On 2017-Mar-02 22:29:46 +0300, Subbsd <sub...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>During some interval after strip call, du will show 512B for any file.
>>If execute du(1) after strip(1) without delay, this behavior is reproduced 
>>100%:
>
> What filesystem are you using?  strip(1) rewrites the target file and du(1)
> reports the number of blocks reported by stat(2).  It seems that you are
> hitting a situation where the file metadata isn't immediately updated.
>
> --
> Peter Jeremy


Got it. My filesystem is ZFS. Looks like when ZFS open and write data
to file, we get wrong number of blocks during a small interval after
writing. Thanks for pointing this out!
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