<html><body><div style="font-family: garamond,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Sure. So far I've just been able to figure that GlusterFS counts blocks in multiples of 512B while XFS seems to count them in multiples of 4.0KB.<br></div><div>Let me again try creating sparse files on xfs, sharded and non-sharded gluster volumes and compare the results. I'll let you know what I find.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-Krutika<br></div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Lindsay Mathieson" <lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Krutika Dhananjay" <kdhananj@redhat.com><br><b>Cc: </b>"gluster-users" <gluster-users@gluster.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, November 5, 2015 7:16:06 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Gluster-users] Shard file size (gluster 3.7.5)<br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 November 2015 at 21:19, Krutika Dhananjay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kdhananj@redhat.com" target="_blank">kdhananj@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Just to be sure, did you rerun the test on the already broken file (test.bin) which was written to when strict-write-ordering had been off?<br></div><div>Or did you try the new test with strict-write-ordering on a brand new file?</div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Very strange. I tried it on new files and even went to the extent of deleting the datastore and bricks, then recreating.<br><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">One oddity on my system - I have two prefs that I cannot reset<br>- cluster.server-quorum-ratio<br>- performance.readdir-ahead<br><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">Though I would'nt have thought they made a difference. I might try cleaning gluster and all its config files off the systems and *really* starting from scratch.<br><div><br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Lindsay</div>
</div></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div></div></body></html>