Most likely OT: rsync to cifs mount

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Mon Apr 6 22:10:28 UTC 2015


On 06Apr2015 10:53, Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 04/01/2015 09:20 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>>>$ du -sh kmeans --apparent-size
>>>154G    kmeans
>>>
>>>$ du -sh kmeans
>>>628G    kmeans
>>
>>That looks backwards to me, presuming you have sparse files?
>
>It makes sense if there's a very large number of files of less than 2k 
>each, while Isilon OneFS uses an 8k block size.  Right?

Yes, but Ranjan has reported:

  This means that the size of a single file is probably 16K, rather
  than the typical 4K desktop file size. However, I do not have
  files that are that small where it would make a difference. So,
  I don't know.

So this may not be the issue.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>


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