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RFC: du reports a 1.2PB file on a 1TB btrfs disk
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
RFC: du reports a 1.2PB file on a 1TB btrfs disk |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Mar 2020 11:52:59 -0700 |
[note: this was not a sparse file and I wasn't using --apparent-size]
On a 1TB local btrfs file system, I found a log file for which du
reported a size of 1.2 petabytes. Quite surprising for a moment, then
I remembered btrfs's "compression".
Should we teach du to report compressed size? Via a new option? Or
make it report *that* size by default, and add a new option to report
the other number. Or should we just view this as a btrfs+compression
infelicity?
Otherwise, du provides no way of seeing how much of the actual disk
space is being used by such FS-compressed files.
- RFC: du reports a 1.2PB file on a 1TB btrfs disk,
Jim Meyering <=