On 28.06.23 08:24, Laurenz Albe wrote:
On Wed, 2023-06-28 at 11:49 +0530, Pradeep Kumar wrote:
I was under the impression that the --link option would create hard links
between the
old and new cluster's data files, but it appears that the entire old cluster
data was
copied to the new cluster, resulting in a significant increase in the new
cluster's size.
Please provide some numbers, ideally
du -sk <old_data_directory> <new_data_directory>
I don't think you can observe the effects of the --link option this way.
It would just give you the full size count for both directories, even
though the point to the same underlying inodes.
To see the effect, you could perhaps use `df` to see how much overall
disk space the upgrade step eats up.