Raymond,

Could be both. How are you mounting the volume and what is the destination
file system? Is this a clone of the volume or are VMs currently powered on
and using the VMDKs on the same volume you are copying?

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 9:48 AM, <admin at lctn.org> wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is a vmfs issue or linux, so starting here.
>
> I have mounted a 3par volume (thinly provisioned vmfs) on my Linux box (64
> bit) and I am attempting to copy it to a second hd. I have tried cp, scp,
> and rsync but the 1.6Tb file ends up with a zero file size on the target
> hd after many hours of growing in size during the copy. Smaller files copy
> over fine. It is only the large vmdk with this problem.
>
> Any ideas how to resolve?
>
>
>
> Raymond Norton
> LCTN
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