On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Paul Simpson <paul at realisestudio.com> wrote: > same - XFS works v well for us too. ?maybe this is just a stripe issue? No, it doesn't report the size of sparse files correctly: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2011-06/msg00225.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6940516/create-sparse-file-with-alternate-data-and-hole-on-ext3-and-xfs