[CentOS] Fwd: File size diff between NFS mount and local disk

aurfalien aurfalien at gmail.com
Thu May 3 18:43:50 UTC 2012


Hi all, I posed the below yesterday but have new info.

Only across NFS does a 2.5MB file show as 64MB.

When locally on the NFS server itself, the file still shows as 2.5MB.

Any nuggets?

- aurf

Begin forwarded message:

> From: aurfalien <aurfalien at gmail.com>
> Date: May 2, 2012 12:56:05 PM EDT
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> Subject: File size diff between NFS mount and local disk
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> 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.
> 
> My NFS server is hardware Raided with a volume stripe size of 128K were the volume size is 20TB.
> 
> My NFS clients are the same distro as the server being Centos.
> 
> Is this due to my stripe size?
> 
> Nuggets are appreciated.
> 
> - aurf




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