Can somebody explain this? du & ls showing different sizes

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 23:45 +0000, Vijay Gill wrote:
>  > That could be because you're using XFS.
> >
> > poc
[...]
> Thanks but how does that statement explain the behaviour I am seeing?

I'm reaching here, but since XFS uses allocation strategies different
from the more familiar ext3 system, I wondered if 'du' could in some
circumstances report larger numbers than "normal".

Apologies if I'm raving.

poc