Most likely OT: rsync to cifs mount

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 08:10:28 +1000 Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:

> 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.

Yes, that is correct. Likely, the issue is the inability of OneFS to handle sparse files.

Best wishes,
Ranjan

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