PowerScale OneFS 9.2.1.0 CLI Administration Guide

Disable packing

You can disable packing either globally or by editing the individual FilePools policies.

1. To globally disable packing, run the following command:

   # isi_packing --enable=false

   Packed files remain packed, but no additional files will be packed.
2. To disable packing by policy, use the following steps:
   1. Check the available space on the cluster to ensure that there is sufficient free space to handle unpacked files.
   2. Run the command isi filepool policies modify policy-name. There are two choices.
      • Include the --enable-packing=false parameter. With --enable-packing= set to false, the packed files that match the policy are unpacked. For example, the following command disables packing on the myfiles policy and unpacks all existing packed files that match the policy criteria:

        # isi filepool policies modify myfiles --enable-packing=false 
        			  

      • Exclude the --enable-packing parameter. If the parameter does not exist in the policy, then no packing or unpacking activity occurs. Files remain packed or unpacked depending on their state. For example, the following command disables packing on the myfiles policy but does not change the state of existing packed files:

        # isi filepool policies modify myfiles