Why does an empty file created on a gfs2 filesystem show its size as 8K?
Issue
Why does an empty file created on a gfs2 filesystem show its size as 8K?
# touch /mnt/gfs2/filesystem-selinux-enabled.txt
# stat -c "%b %B %s %o" /mnt/gfs2/filesystem-selinux-enabled.txt
16 512 0 4096
[root@cs-rh6-3 ~]# du -k /mnt/gfs2/filesystem-selinux-enabled.txt
8 /mnt/gfs2/filesystem-selinux-enabled.txt
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5, 6, 7 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
- A Global Filesystem 2(
gfs2)
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