On 03/30/2015 04:39 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
Thanks, Cameron!
> If the far end is windows, certainly sparse files will no longer be sparse at
> the far end. This kind of thing is one reason we get so picky when getting
> employers to order NASes; we asked for a QNAP (cheap, useful, Linux backend)
> and they wanted to order Microsoft's storage thingummy, which would have broken
> all sorts of stuff just like what you're encountering.
I suspect that that is what has happened here: the stuff is too high-end to be of any
use.
Try the "du" command again, but this time with the "--apparent-size"
option.
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