Most likely OT: rsync to cifs mount

Ranjan Maitra maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com
Wed Apr 1 13:07:34 UTC 2015


Thanks to both Cameron and you, Bob!

After the transfer, here is what we have, on that filesystem:

$ du -sh kmeans --apparent-size
154G	kmeans

$ du -sh kmeans
628G	kmeans

So, I guess that leaves me (and others) stuck.

Ranjan


On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 21:14:38 -0500 Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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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