Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:19:33 -0500 From: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> To: David Samms <dsamms@nw-ds.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS trouble: unbelievably large files created Message-ID: <AANLkTimR4m31z%2BNSC0_4Su2TD%2BfvpL-6ihHrfbRmxZ2r@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <i9a1or$la0$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <i9a1or$la0$1@dough.gmane.org>
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On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:07 PM, David Samms <dsamms@nw-ds.com> wrote: > I am running into issues with ZFS where perl, specifically amavisd running > spamassassin creates unbelievably large files, as in files 100x the size of > the hard disk. > I can confirm that this is a problem with ZFS, I saw it on a amd64 FreeBSD 8.0 install using samba as a fileserver, the clients are windows xp. a 14TB file would be created every time we would copy a file directly from USB storage(plugged into a xp client) and drag and drop it on a ZFS backed samba share. I never could fix the problem... so I reformatted and installed RELENG_8, and the problem never came back. -- Sam Fourman Jr. Fourman Networks http://www.fourmannetworks.com
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