Thanks for the fast response! Rsync is used on modified old files and some of the large files are not modified at all. Complete new files are only created every few weeks.
One example for a typical leaf directory: bash-3.00# ls -gh /export/archiv/VMs/rsync/esx2/486e1c33-e7780ff3-fea1-00e08146792c/HD-DB2 total 148448514 -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 14G Feb 27 13:53 HD-DB2-000001-delta.vmdk -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 247 Feb 20 14:44 HD-DB2-000001.vmdk -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 30G Jan 29 2009 HD-DB2-flat.vmdk -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 8.5K Feb 27 13:53 HD-DB2.nvram -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 19K Jan 29 2009 HD-DB2-Snapshot14.vmsn -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 399 Jan 29 2009 HD-DB2.vmdk -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 895 Nov 28 20:10 HD-DB2.vmsd -rwxr-xr-x 1 archiv 2.2K Feb 20 14:42 HD-DB2.vmx -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 261 Nov 30 12:41 HD-DB2.vmxf -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 50G Feb 27 13:53 +Iw-HD-DB2-flat.vmdk -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 404 Feb 20 14:44 +Iw-HD-DB2.vmdk -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 31K Feb 20 13:41 vmware-0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 31K Feb 13 14:06 vmware-1.log -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 31K Feb 6 13:06 vmware-2.log -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 31K Jan 30 13:42 vmware-3.log -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 31K Jan 23 13:06 vmware-4.log -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 31K Oct 17 16:17 vmware-56.log -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 31K Oct 24 13:45 vmware-57.log -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 32K Nov 5 19:13 vmware-58.log -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 137K Nov 9 17:34 vmware-59.log -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 31K Jan 16 14:04 vmware-5.log -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 31K Nov 14 12:56 vmware-60.log -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 164K Dec 5 13:13 vmware-61.log -rw-r--r-- 1 archiv 31K Feb 27 13:53 vmware.log Total summary of files and directories on the two filesystems: bash-3.00# find /export/archiv/VMs/rsync |wc -l 1796 bash-3.00# find /export/archiv/VMs/rsync -type d |wc -l 102 bash-3.00# find /export/archiv/VMs/vcb |wc -l 3058 bash-3.00# find /export/archiv/VMs/vcb -type d |wc -l 88 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss