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