ZFS trouble: unbelievably large files created

[Oliver Fromme]

David Samms <dsamms at nw-ds.com> wrote:
 > I am running into issues with ZFS where perl, specifically amavisd 
 > running spamassassin creates unbelievably large files, as in files 100x 
 > the size of the hard disk.
 > [...]
 > ls -l .spamassassin
 > total 13352131
 > -rw-------  1 vscan  vscan           684032 Oct 15 12:02 auto-whitelist
 > -rw-------  1 vscan  vscan               40 Oct 15 12:37 bayes.lock
 > -rw-------  1 vscan  vscan          1294336 Oct 15 12:38 bayes_seen
 > -rw-------  1 vscan  vscan          4227072 Oct 15 12:38 bayes_toks
 > -rw-------  1 vscan  vscan     553184002048 Oct 15 12:38 
 > bayes_toks.expire3515
 > -rw-------  1 vscan  vscan  140743122878464 Oct 15 12:14 
 > bayes_toks.expire97254
 > 
 > The last file is 140TB which is pretty good sized for a 1TB disk.  Disk 
 > compression is OFF.  du -hs reports 13G int the .spamassassin directory.

What does "ls -kls" report on those files?

Best regards
   Oliver

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