Question about metadata size

["Libor Klepáč" <libor.klepac@bcom.cz>]

Hi,
we have filesystem like this

Overall:
    Device size:                  30.00TiB
    Device allocated:             24.93TiB
    Device unallocated:            5.07TiB
    Device missing:                  0.00B
    Used:                         24.92TiB
    Free (estimated):              5.07TiB      (min: 2.54TiB)
    Data ratio:                       1.00
    Metadata ratio:                   1.00
    Global reserve:              512.00MiB      (used: 0.00B)

Data,single: Size:24.85TiB, Used:24.84TiB (99.98%)
   /dev/sdc       24.85TiB

Metadata,single: Size:88.00GiB, Used:81.54GiB (92.65%)
   /dev/sdc       88.00GiB

System,DUP: Size:32.00MiB, Used:3.25MiB (10.16%)
   /dev/sdc       64.00MiB

Unallocated:
   /dev/sdc        5.07TiB


Is it normal to have so much metadata? We have only 119 files with size
of 2048 bytes or less.
There is 885 files in total and 17 directories, we don't use snapshots.

Most of the files are multi gigabyte, some of them have around 3TB -
all are snapshots from vmware stored using nakivo.

Working with filesystem - mostly deleting files seems to be very slow -
it took several hours to delete snapshot of one machine, which
consisted of four or five of those 3TB files.

We run beesd on those data, but i think, there was this much metadata
even before we started to do so.

With regards,
Libor