I believe GPFS report 1 block used in stat so the file will not be treated as empty by applications. If i remember correctly, some backup programs was skipping small files with data in inode because GPFS was returning 0 block used for these small files. Steve Y. Xiao -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20190718/6df9881d/attachment.html>