[Box Backup] Strange backup corruption

[Ben Summers]

On 3 Jan 2007, at 08:37, Chris Wilson wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Ben Summers wrote:
>
>> Userland programs cannot mess up a filesystem to create files  
>> which are larger than the disc they're writing to.
>
> How about sparse files? (i agree that it's less likely than a disk/ 
> OS bug).

Yes, I admit sparse files can show those symptoms. However, bbstored  
does not use sparse files, and writes sequentially.

Ben