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> just aren't credible if you understand how it works. Yes, your theoretical knowledge, which several of the people in that thread obviously have, beats actual

> just aren't credible if you understand how it works. Yes, your theoretical knowledge, which several of the people in that thread obviously have, beats actual experience. Not only is that not credible, it's about as useful and insightful as "it works for me" - and who on Earth is using statvfs on a Mac? Is the installer using statvfs? You've looked, right? And you believe every developer uses the correct APIs and never introduces a bug… Try reading and not skimming, it's especially important when dealing with bug reports.

saurik 6y ago
The alternative theory is that the installer is spending a very very long amount of time (on my computer i bet that would take at least ten minutes) scanning every file on my disk to look up the declared size and totaling it to check whether the size of the disk minus that number is enough disk space, which is so absolutely ridiculous of a premise that I don't even know how it is being taken seriously.
- brigandish 6y ago
  That's an alternative theory, among many other possible ones that wouldn't lead to the dismissal of an entire thread of developers' comments based on a quick skim and the strange idea that not one of them knows what a sparse file is.