I'm not sure what kind of report you're looking for, but the `du` command has a
"--apparent-size" option that has this description:
print apparent sizes, rather than disk usage; although the
apparent size is usually smaller, it may be larger due to holes in (âsparseâ)
files, internal fragmentation, indirect blocks, and the like
This can be used to get the actual amount of space that files are using.
I think that mmrepquota and mmlsquota show twice the amount of space of the
actual file due to the replication, but somebody correct me if I'm mistaken.
I also would like to know what the output of the ILM "LIST" policy reports for
KB_ALLOCATED for replicated files. Is it the replicated amount of data?
Thanks,
-Bryan
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Foster
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 5:06 AM
To: gpfsug main discussion list
Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Quotas, replication and hsm
On 27 October 2015 at 17:28, Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT
Services) <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If we have replication enabled on a file, does the size from ls -l or du
> return the actual file size, or the replicated file size (I.e. Twice the
> actual size)?.
>
> From experimentation, it appears to be double the actual size, I.e. Taking
> into account replication of 2.
>
> This appears to mean that quotas have to be double what we actually want to
> take account of the replication factor.
>
> Is this correct?
This is what we obverse here by default and currently have to double our
fileset quotas to take this is to account on replicated filesystems.
You've reminded me that I was going to ask this list if it's possible to report
the un-replicated sizes? While the quota management is only a slight pain,
what's reported to the user is more of a problem for us(e.g. via SMB share / df
). We're considering replicating a lot more of our filesystems and it would be
useful if it didn't appear that everyones quotas had just doubled overnight.
Thanks,
Dan.
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Dan Foster | Senior Storage Systems Administrator | IT Services
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