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PowerScale OneFS 9.6.x.x CLI Administration Guide

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FilePolicy job

You can use the FilePolicy job to apply file pool policies.

You can use FilePolicy job if you are already using snapshots (or FSA) and file pool policies to manage data on the cluster. The FilePolicy job is an efficient way to keep inactive data away from the fastest tiers. Because the scan is done on the index, which does not require many locks, ensure that you run the IndexUpdate job before running the FilePolicy job. In this way, you can vastly reduce the number of times a file is visited before it is tiered down.

You must keep down-tiering data in ways they already have, such as file pool policies that move data based on a fixed age. Adjust the data based on the fullness of their tiers.

You can use the following options when running the FilePolicy job:

  • --directory-only: This option helps you to process directories and is done to redirect new file ingest.
  • --policy-only: This option helps you to set policies. Make sure not to restripe.
  • --ingest: This option helps you to use -directory-only and -policy-only in combination.
  • --nop: This option helps you to calculate and report the work that you have done.

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