I suggest trying the rsync --sparse option. Typically, qcow2 files (tend to be large) are
sparse files. Without the sparse option, the files expand in their destination.
September 14, 2020 6:15 PM, fotofors(a)gmail.com wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm using the Nautilus Ceph version for some huge folder with approximately 1.7TB
of files.I
> created the filesystem and started to copy files via rsync.
>
> However, I've had to stop the process, because Ceph shows me that the new size of
the folder is
> almost 6TB. I double checked the replicated size and it is 2. I double checked the
rsync options
> and I didn't copy the files followed by symlinks.
>
> How would it be possible to explain the extreme difference between the size of the
original folder
> and CephFS?
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