zfs discuss - May 2008 - Weirdly inflated files sizes in Mac OS 10.5.2 Finder / Opensolaris 2008.05

Hi All,

I wonder if this is something that needs to be looked into further, or a quirk
in my configuration or something. I have an Opensolaris 2008.05 box which I have
configured as a CIFS member server in a Windows 2003 AD. CIFS is running in
domain mode, Windows/Linux/MacOS clients can authenticate with domain
credentials just fine to access the ZFS+CIFS share I have created.

I have a user however who is accessing the share from a Mac running OS 10.5.2
Intel. The file sizes of existing & copied files as reported in his Finder
are hugely inflated over what users on WinXP,  Ubuntu Linux, and as on the
actual server are. For example, a file of actual size ~ 80MB in the share
appears as something like 20GB in his Finder. This behaviour is the same for
files which he copies over, or existing files which he views.

Interestingly on one occasion after a period of some 20 minutes, the file sizes
in his Finder "settled" to the correct actual size.

I wonder if anyone can give me any pointers for what is going on here, if anyone
needs me to run tests or further details happy to provide them. I can take some
screen grabs and host somewhere as well.

Some info on my configuration is here:
http://web.mac.com/davekoelmeyer/Dave_Koelmeyer/Dave_Koelmeyer_-_OpenSolaris_2008.05_CIFS_File_Server.html

which is mostly a gathering of other folks'' blogs as I learn how to do
this.

Cheers, 
Dave
 
 
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