Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > On 05/03/2012 09:16 PM, aurfalien wrote: >> On May 3, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Glenn Cooper wrote: >> >>>>>> 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. <snip> >>>> By the way, this is only across NFS as when ssh'd into the server, the >>>> file size shows 2.5M, same as the clients when its local so its seems >>>> NFS is the culprit. <snip> >>> Wild guess - cached file attributes not getting updated properly in the >>> NFS client? Has the actual file size changed recently, like in the >>> last few hours or days? >> >> Something more relevant perhaps, mount options via FSTAB on the server >> are; >> >> /dev/### /mountpoint xfs >> defaults,allocsize=64m,relatime,logbufs=8,logbsize=256k 0 0 >> >> Notice the allocsize of 64MB, perhaps relatime might be playing a role >> as well? >> >> I will remove allocsize first and report back. > > Is it possible that you have 2 files with (almost) the same name? Check > the inode of the file? And maybe copy it to subfolder? Two questions: are you looking at the file *without* the directory being NFS mounted? Could you have accidentally created it under the mountpoint? Second - could it be a sparse file? mark