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Re: [Xen-users] weird domU sizes

Brian Krusic wrote on Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:50:59 -0800:

> I've done more tests and have confirmed that wne I do a simple cp to  
> an nfs or local storage wether its ext3 or xfs, the size of the file  
> is roughly 1/3 of the size of that same file in its soruce dir of /var/ 
> lib/xen/images.

I have verified that a local copy of a sparse file on ext3 actually 
produces another sparse file. I may have had this wrong in memory from the 
past. But I'm sure that under certain conditions I have seen that a copy 
of a sparse file created a non-sparse file with the maximum size.

Here is what you can do to test with sparse files without playing with 
your VM all the time:

create an empty sparse file (this one will have 2 MB):
dd if=/dev/zero of=test.img bs=1k seek=2048 count=1

check "official" size:
/home2/vm l test.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2098176 Jan 17 16:34 test.img

check real size on disk:
/home2/vm du -s test.img
12      test.img




Kai

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