The issue have smoke from Dec 2023 https://forum.storj.io/t/disk-usage-discrepancy and not from the link a month ago you give (this is when developer was fully aware of this).
The early suggestion from developer was this Disk usage discrepancy? - #187 by elek. But let me ask you this - is there major effort to ensure byte by byte storage size correctness for SNOs? I mean as a genuine question, compare that effort to the effort of ensure data free of corruption for customer…