Finished installing the new (fixed) starwind server using https://tmplink.starwind.com/StarWindBeta.exe whith the following results: The option to (manually) trigger defragmentation of the LSFS device is now available. Clicked that option and my 5TB datastore went from 7.65TB to 4.61TB size on disk ...

It does.... deploying a second starwindfixed LSFS storage server rigth now, keeping the current IMG based just in case...feedback later....

Thanks for your quick reply....it is obvious you are working hard on this. Well, had to move fast to IMG fixed size disk (painful process of course )... I´ll be back to LSFS in production after you release the bugfixed RTM version and let you know....

Any chance to mount offline an LSFS disk to extract the information????? I´m trying to avoid copying 5TB of information via iSCSI.....

I´ve read all the posts related to LSFS devices uncontrollable grow and still can´t see a plausible solution to the fact that we are running out of space (wich already happened in my case). My questions....Is there still no way to (manually) tell starwind to execute a LSFS log files maintenance? Is ...