It’s probably nothing sinister, though.
  • Simon Müller@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I mean, to be completely fair, that’s how data storage works.

    We cannot really just make data disappear, so we let it get overwritten instead

    • mojo_raisin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      But clearly the data is not overwritten and this was intentional. How do I know? Because that would amount to a massive amount of data, if it was de to a bug in Apple software or underlying filesystems, it would be detected in monitoring systems “Hey, we’re using 10x the data we should be, maybe we should look into it”.

      The mistake was in the flag code that was supposed to fool us.

      • Simon Müller@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        7 months ago

        no when I say “overwritten” I mean that the area is set as deleted in the filesystem and the next time something writes to that area the data that was there before is disregarded.