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PowerScale OneFS 9.7.0.0 CloudPools Administration Guide

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CloudPools archiving and file size

You can gain the most benefit from CloudPools, in terms of freeing up storage space on your cluster, by archiving larger files. Archiving small files provides less, if any, benefit.

NOTE:Do not archive files of 32 kibibytes (KiB) or less. Doing so does not save any space on the cluster.

One of the benefits of archiving files to the cloud with CloudPools is how quickly you can recall these files when needed.

To enable fast recall, CloudPools creates a SmartLink file for every file whose data is archived to the cloud. SmartLink files each contain a map to the data in the cloud, metadata, and cache space. SmartLink files are generally small in size, but can grow if data is cached through inline access.

Therefore, if you archive small files to the cloud, SmartLink files are left in their place on the cluster, and could approach, or even exceed, the size of the original file.

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