Hi Roberto, On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:31 PM, sac <sac at gluster.com> wrote: > Hi Roberto, > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Roberto Scudeller <beto.rvs at gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. > Here is a small detail I put up on the ls and du behavior with respect to sparse files: http://sacurs.blogspot.com/2011/05/sparse-files-du-vs-ls-h.html Hope it helps. -Sachidananda.
