Hi Roberto, On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Roberto Scudeller <beto.rvs at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Gluster support a sparse files? > > example: dd if=/dev/zero of=archive_sparse bs=1M count=0 seek=10239 > > Create a sparse file with 10GB, show in ls -lh, but in du -h show 512bytes. > That is how it works on the local filesystem as well. Gluster has nothing to do with this, that is how du and ls work. Regards, Sachidananda.