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Am 03.05.2012 20:19, schrieb Stephan Wiesand:
> On May 3, 2012, at 20:11 , Florian Philipp wrote:
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>> 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
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>> Is it a sparse file? What exact command did you use to calculate the
>> file size?
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> A sparse file will grow when copied, not shrink.
>
`cp` is clever enough to avoid this. Quoting the man page:
By default, sparse SOURCE files are detected by a crude
heuristic and the corresponding DEST file is made sparse as well. That
is the behavior selected by --sparse=auto.
The theory was that `du` over nfs might behave more like `du
--apparent-size` locally.
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