On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
> Just a bit more information on this.
>
> As I couldn't understand if that was an AMD64 issue as illogical as that might
> be, I decided to put that to the test. So, I pull out an other AMD64 server
> and it's running 3.8, same fsize and bsize, one drive, etc.
>
> Use rsync to mirror the content and the results are consistent with the i386.
> So, that prove it's not that at a minimum.
>
> So, the source is 4.4GB and expand to 7.7GB.
>
> I have no logical explications what so ever.
You have been told an explanation (sparse files).
-Otto
>
> So, I will stop here and just drop it as I have nothing else logical I can
> think of to look at why that might be.
>
> I will just have to put it in the unknown pile and leave it alone.
>
> One thing for sure, I will be wiping that box out to be sure next.
>
> Unless someone have an idea, again, not a problem, but something very weird I
> was trying to understand and find some logical explication too.
>
> I will just have to take it as such and leave it alone.
>
> So, case close as I have no more idea or clue.
>
> This was done on a brand new server and using rsync to copy identical files
> from the source to the destination.
>
> ======================
> Source:
> www1# disklabel wd0
> # Inside MBR partition 3: type A6 start 63 size 78156162
> # /dev/rwd0c:
> type: ESDI
> disk: ESDI/IDE disk
> label: Maxtor 6E040L0
> flags:
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 63
> tracks/cylinder: 16
> sectors/cylinder: 1008
> cylinders: 16383
> total sectors: 78165360
> rpm: 3600
> interleave: 1
> trackskew: 0
> cylinderskew: 0
> headswitch: 0 # microseconds
> track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds
> drivedata: 0
>
> 16 partitions:
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
> a: 524097 63 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 0*- 519
> b: 8388576 524160 swap # Cyl 520 - 8841
> c: 78165360 0 unused 0 0 # Cyl 0 - 77544
> d: 2097648 8912736 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 8842 - 10922
> e: 52429104 11010384 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 10923 - 62935
> f: 2097648 63439488 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 62936 - 65016
> g: 10486224 65537136 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 65017 - 75419
> h: 2132865 76023360 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 75420 -
> 77535*
> www1# df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/wd0a 251M 40.5M 198M 17% /
> /dev/wd0h 1024M 54.0K 972M 0% /home
> /dev/wd0d 1006M 8.5M 948M 1% /tmp
> /dev/wd0g 4.9G 304M 4.4G 6% /usr
> /dev/wd0e 24.6G 4.7G 18.7G 20% /var
> /dev/wd0f 1006M 1.5M 955M 0% /var/qmail
>
> =================================
>
> Destination.
> # disklabel wd0
> # Inside MBR partition 3: type A6 start 63 size 156296322
> # /dev/rwd0c:
> type: ESDI
> disk: ESDI/IDE disk
> label: Maxtor 6L080M0
> flags:
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 63
> tracks/cylinder: 16
> sectors/cylinder: 1008
> cylinders: 16383
> total sectors: 156301488
> rpm: 3600
> interleave: 1
> trackskew: 0
> cylinderskew: 0
> headswitch: 0 # microseconds
> track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds
> drivedata: 0
>
> 16 partitions:
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
> a: 1048257 63 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 0*- 1039
> b: 16777152 1048320 swap # Cyl 1040 - 17683
> c: 156301488 0 unused 0 0 # Cyl 0 -155060
> d: 10486224 17825472 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 17684 - 28086
> e: 83885760 28311696 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 28087 -111306
> f: 4194288 112197456 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 111307
> -115467
> g: 2097648 116391744 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 115468
> -117548
> h: 20971440 118489392 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 117549
> -138353
> i: 16835553 139460832 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 138354
> -155055*
> # df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/wd0a 502M 49.3M 427M 10% /
> /dev/wd0i 7.9G 2.0K 7.5G 0% /home
> /dev/wd0d 4.9G 2.0K 4.7G 0% /tmp
> /dev/wd0h 9.8G 958M 8.4G 10% /usr
> /dev/wd0e 39.4G 7.7G 29.7G 21% /var
> /dev/wd0f 2.0G 252K 1.9G 0% /var/log
> /dev/wd0g 1006M 2.0K 956M 0% /var/qmail
