for context, i observed the total size to go down from ~3240000 MiB to 3137155 MiB despite more data being downloaded in that period. this is not a small difference at all
@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ you have disturbed a dim memory here about how XFS does size allocations in some really confusing way. there's like a … background compaction, thing, I think? gosh it's been a long time since I looked at this
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