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On May 3, 2012, at 20:11 , Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 03.05.2012 20:01, schrieb aurfalien:
>> Hi all,
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Is this due to my stripe size?
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>> Nuggets are appreciated.
>>
>> - aurf
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> Is it a sparse file? What exact command did you use to calculate the
> file size?
A sparse file will grow when copied, not shrink.
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Stephan Wiesand
DESY -DV-
Platanenenallee 6
15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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