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PowerScale OneFS 9.2.1.0 CLI Administration Guide

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Fragmentation issues

Fragmentation affects space usage and is the most common storage efficiency issue.

If files are overwritten or deleted repeatedly, there can be fragmentation in the container ShadowStores.

The following commands provide information about fragmentation:

  • isi_sstore defrag -v -d -a -c -p shows the fragmentation space that defragmentation can reclaim.
  • isi_packing --ls shows the current packing configuration.
  • SmartPools job reports in verbose mode shows statistics about files that were packed.
  • isi_sstore list and isi_sstore stats show the degree of fragmentation. Use isi_sstore list -v to see the fragmentation score and other verbose attributes for each SIN entry.
  • isi_storage_efficiency scans through a directory or files and calculates the storage efficiency of files in the sample data set.
  • isi get shows file attributes, including packing attributes.
  • isi_cpr

See the PowerScale OneFS CLI Command Reference for information about isi get.

The ShadowStoreDelete job frees up blocks for the shadow store and runs the defragmenter if it is enabled.

Be aware of how much space you have packed. Clones, packed files, and deduplicated files are unpacked or expanded on the target cluster during SyncIQ operations and have to be re-packed or re-deduplicated on the target cluster.


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