Re: [Xen-users] weird domU sizes

[Brian Krusic <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Javier,

My dom0 is 1TB and using LVM and so my domU files are on that 500GB LVM.

My nfs server is around 10TB and is XFS.

Would my image be a sparse file since I didn't allocate full image  
size at creation?
- Brian




On Jan 16, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Javier Guerra wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Brian Krusic <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>  
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > So I shutdown my domU (for backing it up) and do du -h
> > /var/lib/xen/images/host.img
> >
> > ... shows 18GB
> >
> > So I copy it to my NFS mounted backup machine and upon doing a du -h
> > /nfs-share/backups/host.img
> >
> > ... show 7.6GB.
> >
> > I log on to that NFS server and its still shows 7.6GB
> >
> > So when I scp it to a remote filesystem the image shows as 300GB!
> just guessing.... is your image a raw sparse file?, and the Dom0 and
> NFS server have different blocksizes?
>
>
>
>
> --
> Javier
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