Most likely you have many orphaned objects on your old FS.
On 11 July 2012 18:34, Michael Kluge <Michael.Kluge at tu-dresden.de>
wrote:> Dear list,
>
> we are in the process of copying the whole content of a 1.6.7 Lustre FS
> to a 1.8.7 Lustre FS. For this I precreated all individual directories
> on the new FS to set striping information based on the #bytes/#files
> ratio. Then we used a parallel rsync to copy all directories over. All
> of this worked fine. Now, on the old FS the user data consumed 63 TB
> while on the new FS ''df -h'' reports only 56 TB as used.
I''m sure we
> copied all dirs and all rsyncs finished successfully.
>
> Is this difference expected if one moves from 1.6->1.8? Or did I miss
> something?
>
>
> Regards, Michael
>
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