Hi, our DPM which is using native xrootd 4.9.1 yesterday created two different 128TB files on two different diskservers that were received as a job output from two different worker nodes. The size of original file was few megabytes and when I check beginning of stored files up to original size & checksum everything seems to be OK - except these are sparse files with size 128TB. Original transferred files from WN looked like: mc15_13TeV:log.18636890._001059.job.log.tgz.1 - original size 3101899, adler32 742e1336 mc16_5TeV:AOD.18595963._000786.pool.root.1 - original size 737474514, adler32 dc68cb21 but on our diskservers they were stored as [root@dpmpool22 ~]# ls -l /mnt/fs1/atlas/2019-07-17/log.18636890._001059.job.log.tgz.1.rucio.upload.209928.1563376157 -rw-rw---- 1 dpmmgr dpmmgr 140560257079236 Jul 17 17:11 /mnt/fs1/atlas/2019-07-17/log.18636890._001059.job.log.tgz.1.rucio.upload.209928.1563376157 [root@dpmpool22 ~]# du --block-size=1 /mnt/fs1/atlas/2019-07-17/log.18636890._001059.job.log.tgz.1.rucio.upload.209928.1563376157 3108864 /mnt/fs1/atlas/2019-07-17/log.18636890._001059.job.log.tgz.1.rucio.upload.209928.1563376157 [root@dpmpool24 ~]# ls -l /mnt/fs2/atlas/2019-07-17/AOD.18595963._000786.pool.root.1.rucio.upload.210480.1563377083 -rw-rw---- 1 dpmmgr dpmmgr 139734345056408 Jul 17 17:31 /mnt/fs2/atlas/2019-07-17/AOD.18595963._000786.pool.root.1.rucio.upload.210480.1563377083 [root@dpmpool24 tmp]# du --block-size=1 /mnt/fs2/atlas/2019-07-17/AOD.18595963._000786.pool.root.1.rucio.upload.210480.1563377083 737480704 /mnt/fs2/atlas/2019-07-17/AOD.18595963._000786.pool.root.1.rucio.upload.210480.1563377083 I was told that DPM is not really involved in transfering / storing files with xrootd protocol, so I guess something bad must happened inside XRootD libraries. Do you have any idea why these two transfers generated such extreme files? Unfortunately our xrootd logging is pretty low and I was able to find only info about file creation [root@dpmpool22 ~]# grep log.18636890._001059.job.log.tgz /var/log/xrootd/dpmdisk/xrootd.log 190717 17:10:39 332092 ofs_Posc: Creator changed from atlasprd.2757:90@[2001:718:401:6e03::1:21] to atlasprd.2757:39@[2001:718:401:6e03::1:21] for /dpm/farm.particle.cz/home/atlas/atlasdatadisk/rucio/mc15_13TeV/26/98/log.18636890._001059.job.log.tgz.1.rucio.upload [root@dpmpool24 tmp]# grep AOD.18595963._000786.pool.root /var/log/xrootd/dpmdisk/xrootd.log 190717 17:29:26 14204 ofs_Posc: Creator changed from atlasprd.2757:33@[2001:718:401:6e03::1:32] to atlasprd.2757:95@[2001:718:401:6e03::1:32] for /dpm/farm.particle.cz/home/atlas/atlasdatadisk/rucio/mc16_5TeV/09/bc/AOD.18595963._000786.pool.root.1.rucio.upload Petr ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-L&A=1