Hi,
I've been experimenting a strange behaviour of XFS+NFS in my system. I
don't know if this is normal.
Server machine: NFS with homes shared (/users). Filesystem is XFS.
Quota is assigned for each user.
Client machine: mount that shared directory (/users). Also has NIS for
UID,GID mapping.
On the client machine and as a normal user, I gunzip+untar a .tgz with
many subdirectories and small files (as a kernel .tgz).
The quota grows very fast when I'm "tar zxvf" the file.
Then, on the server I get:
# ls -l testsuite.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 users 182853 Feb 25 19:06 testsuite.in
# du -k testsuite.in
256 testsuite.in
It's like block size were increased to 128 Kb. In some files, for a file
of 10 Kb, du -k reports 64. Instead, in other files, I can deduce they
only use 4 Kb (the normal block size for a XFS filesystem, I think).
I know that command "du -k" sometimes reports erroneous information, but
the problem is that this is reflected in the user quota, and the user
runs out of quota...
I've been using a XFS kernel 2.4.4, cvs from early May.
Is this behaviour normal?
Thanx.
/Fermin
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