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On May 3, 2012, at 2:11 PM, Florian Philipp wrote:

> Am 03.05.2012 20:01, schrieb aurfalien:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I never really paid attention to this but a file on an NFS mount is
>> showing 64M in size, but when copying the file to a local drive, it
>> shows 2.5MB in size.
>> 
>> My NFS server is hardware Raided with a volume stripe size of 128K
>> were the volume size is 20TB, my local disk is about 500GB.
>> 
>> Is this due to my stripe size?
>> 
>> Nuggets are appreciated.
>> 
>> - aurf
> 
> Is it a sparse file? What exact command did you use to calculate the
> file size?
> 
> Regards,
> Florian Philipp
> 

By the way, this is only across NFS as when ssh'd into the server, the file size shows 2.5M, same as the clients when its local so its seems NFS is the culprit.

I have r/wsize tweaked but thats it.

Any ideas?

- aurf

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