On Tuesday 07 October 2008 12:43:45 Pete French wrote: > > Yeah, ZFS offers a lot, which can create confusion, unfortunately. Do we > > limit physical space with quota or only logical (before compression)? > > Should we take space consumed by snapshots into account or not? etc. > > On a related note, is there any way to make du tell me how big files > are in actual bytes on a compressed ZFS filesystem, aas opposed to space > on the disc ? I love ZFS, but I suddenly found out last night that I > have lost the ability tto do a 'du' on a directory to work out if it will > fit onto a CD or not :-)
But you can't do that on UFS either: sparse files, hardlinks, ... The GNU du(1) has a "--apparent-size" switch to get the logical size instead of what the tool's name suggests (the disk usage). -- /"\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
