Zach Dennis wrote:
> I have a gzipped xml file, which I get from a Java Client on a Windows 
> machine. The file size is 9934 bytes. I send a MD5 sum with my 
> transmission.
> 
> I send this file over the network to a Linux server. I receive 9934 
> bytes (i run MD5.hexdigest to make sure the received file is the same as 
> the one sent).
> 
> When I write the file to disk the file on disk has 11214 bytes to it.
> 
> Ruby tells me that it wrote 9934 bytes, but the filesystem is showing me 
> different.
> 
> Any clues? Thanks,

After restarting the ruby process, the problem still occurred. After 
rebooting the linux server, the problem went away.

Zach