Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:41:10 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File size discrepancies Message-ID: <46FD4AC6.7030501@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <64c038660709281127j1df4835bxcbfe4495600fd6d7@mail.gmail.com> References: <64c038660709281127j1df4835bxcbfe4495600fd6d7@mail.gmail.com>
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Modulok wrote:
> I have a file hierarchy of about 18GiB which was copied from a UFS 2
> file system one hard disk to a UFS 2 file system on a gmirror array.
> The size of the two hierarchies differ by 12 bytes according to du(1).
> No errors were reported by cp(1) during the copy operation.
>
> Is this normal, or should I start hunting for corruption?
Hmmm... 12 bytes out of 18GiB is pretty good going. A 12 byte
discrepancy could be due to something as simple as a changed path
name in a sym-link or two. Most other reasonable explanations for a
size difference I can think of would probably result in a bigger
discrepancy.
Cheers,
Matthew
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