Re: Infernalis, cephfs: difference between df and du

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On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 1:20 AM, HMLTH <hmlth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Gregory Farnum – Thu., 21. January 2016 4:02
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>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Francois Lafont <flafdivers@xxxxxxx>
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>> > Hi,
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>> > On 19/01/2016 07:24, Adam Tygart wrote:
>> >> It appears that with --apparent-size, du adds the "size" of the
>> >> directories to the total as well. On most filesystems this is the
>> >> block size, or the amount of metadata space the directory is using. On
>> >> CephFS, this size is fabricated to be the size sum of all sub-files.
>> >> i.e. a cheap/free 'du -sh $folder'
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>> > Ah ok, interesting. I have tested and I have noticed however that size
>> > of a directory is not updated immediately. For instance, if I change
>> > the size of the regular file in a directory (of cephfs) the size of the
>> > size doesn't change immediately after.
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>> It's updated lazily so it's not instantaneous, but it should be pretty
>> fast. Probably within 30 seconds, and usually a lot less.
>> -Greg
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> I recently reported on this list an issue with tar reporting a file as
> changed[1], is this the same phenomenon?

We run tar in all of our nightlies and validation suites and have not
seen the issues you're reporting there, so I don't *think* so. Will
discuss more in your thread.
-Greg

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> Thomas HAMEL
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> 1: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ceph.user/26594
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