From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 16 09:58:39 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A2301065697 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:58:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabbawp@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f42.google.com (mail-ww0-f42.google.com [74.125.82.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 200168FC13 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:58:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi17 with SMTP id 17so4095967wwi.1 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:58:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=J7czG1mT74Vdmzk/7Q5SuH1/N5eJi6Wxp+1ehp8lnsg=; b=cxIRGhspebeN9DfzvnR4raGu48EYc9qhcXX8jhTHzaitWDy4sILmnjLjCfs82mnNmi wteS+nrMPO9L1dtOTIS9KG1p/4p6BZtgD1Lt9TBgaJ65IOkSk3b+OjS/rmcYE5sffaT7 TRYE8yLDqXl/KQlg1CZCZMkHwryoBxDsMgSSY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=JvWqrFzNOUvAYlDnza288ACmxAJ1l/P/9mISNrmUepxyEIOGA7wygNkr1tjX9FK2zz mEO2mEjBs1aCMq+YKzLr1BUCT0IswOUp7712RZnMY8qnt4Ik15V2PMCb6w7zwIS/BxGl gde1l+YxJivaQJ+bd5pPEAAlQ7wNO//dfcHiY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.177.210 with SMTP id d60mr282498wem.85.1297848803523; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:33:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.177.74 with HTTP; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:33:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:33:23 +0200 Message-ID: From: Gareth Hopkins To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Snapshot on different sized partitions show different file types X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:58:39 -0000 Hi, I'm creating snapshots on a couple of partitions ranging from 10GB to 31GB running file on the snapshots show different filetypes for the snapshots on the larger than 10GB partitions. [root@ ~]# df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 9.7G 322M 8.6G 4% / [root@ ~]# file /.snap/daily.0 /.snap/daily.0: Unix Fast File system [v2] (little-endian) last mounted on /, last written at Wed Feb 16 00:34:01 2011, clean flag 1, readonly flag 1, number of blocks 5242880, number of data blocks 5077079, number of cylinder groups 56, block size 16384, fragment size 2048, average file size 16384, average number of files in dir 64, pending blocks to free 0, pending inodes to free 0, system-wide uuid 0, minimum percentage of free blocks 8, TIME optimization [root@ ~]# df -h /usr Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1d 31G 2.7G 26G 9% /usr [root@ ~]# file /usr/.snap/daily.0 /usr/.snap/daily.0: DOS executable (device driver) [root@ ~]# df -h /usr/local Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1e 15G 134M 14G 1% /usr/local [root@ ~]# file /usr/local/.snap/daily.0 /usr/local/.snap/daily.0: DOS executable (device driver) Is there some sort of limit on the snapshot size being reported to the file system ? Cheers, Gareth