Incorrect file size?

[Ivan Voras]

Rink Springer wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 03:54:22PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
>> Except that the file in question should be, judging by the filename, a
>> simple text file. I don't really see how a whitelist could grow to such
>> monstrous sizes :) Most likely it's a file system corruption - fsck
>> should be the first thing to try.
> 
> The 'vscan' user leads me assume this is SpamAssassin - I've seen this
> behaviour at work, where our scripts were trying to backup a 1TB file
> (which actually was ~vscan/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist). The result was
> that the backup script died due to lack of disk space on the backup
> server (as we don't use compression).
> 
> When I was investigating why the file could be so large it, it turned
> out the file was only a few hunderd 'real' MB's, so that is why I assume
> this person is having the same issue as we do. The file is a Berkeley DB
> file, by the way, so there's nothing textfile about it ;-)

I learn something every day :)
Didn't know BDB was smart enough to create sparse files.

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