On 11/9/07, Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just for example, a source file that is sparse badly, don't really have > allocated disk block yet, but when copy over, via scp, or rsync will > actually use that space on the destination servers. All the servers are > identical (or suppose to be anyway) but what is happening is the copy of > them are running out of space at time in the copy process. Like when it > is copying them, it may easy use twice the amount of space in the > process and sadly filling up the destinations then then the sync process > stop making the distribution of the load unusable. I need to increase > the capacity yes, except that it will take me times to do so.
so what are you going to do when you find these sparse files?