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Bottom line: use du --apparent-size to compare information content (independent of filesystems), rather than disk utilization (block-size dependent).

                *Distributed Disk Utilization*
BeeGFS Items Apparent Size per Item On Disk per Item
hsf_0/ 176893 162.0 MB 0.94 KB 100.2 MB 0.58 KB
hsf_1/ 165189 152.5 MB 0.94 KB 93.9 MB 0.58 KB
hsf_2/ 138268 182.1 MB 1.35 KB 78.4 MB 0.58 KB
hsf_3/ 91543 85.3 MB 0.95 KB 52.9 MB 0.59 KB
hsf_6/ 87773 81.2 MB 0.95 KB 50.8 MB 0.59 KB
hsf_7/ 85758 79.6 MB 0.95 KB 49.7 MB 0.59 KB
hsf_4/ 84587 77.1 MB 0.93 KB 48.0 MB 0.58 KB
Total 830011 819.2 MB 1.01 KB 474.1 MB 0.58 KB
                  *Local Disk Utilization*
Ext4 Items Apparent Size per Item On Disk per Item
hsf_0/ 176893 694.4 MB 4.02 KB 113.2 MB 0.65 KB
hsf_1/ 165189 648.2 MB 4.02 KB 106.3 MB 0.66 KB
hsf_2/ 138268 541.6 MB 4.01 KB 89.4 MB 0.66 KB
hsf_3/ 91543 357.6 MB 4.00 KB 62.0 MB 0.69 KB
hsf_6/ 87773 342.9 MB 4.00 KB 58.6 MB 0.68 KB
hsf_7/ 85758 335.0 MB 4.00 KB 57.4 MB 0.68 KB
hsf_4/ 84587 330.4 MB 4.00 KB 55.8 MB 0.67 KB
Total 830011 3250.1 MB 4.01 KB 542.7 MB 0.67 KB
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