On 10 Apr 2025, at 8:55, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > ... > Does this behaviour seem familiar to anybody? > > I realize this is "not a bug" (all data is safe and sound etc.) but > somehow it seems that various layers are not working together as one > might expect. It's possible that my expectation is wrong. :) My first impression is that the writes are being processed out-of-order on the server, so XFS is using a range of allocation sizes while growing the file extents. Ben