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Subject: Re: ZFS trouble: unbelievably large files created
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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