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Storreclaim - why can't I set the -rate option to anything above 95?
The StorReclaim utility has a -rate option which we can set to reclaim anywhere from 1-95% of the unwritten space on a disk. The customer cannot set it to anything above 95%. If a customer has a large disk, such as 5TB, that 5% can be pretty significant.
I'm curious why we can't set it to 99 or 100%? Anyone know?
codyhosterman
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February 6th, 2013 13:00
It is my understanding that Storreclaim creates a balloon file ,like Yankees referred to, to mark and reclaim the space and if it was set to 100 it would consume all of the available capacity for a period of time. Even briefly that isnt a desirable situation so the decision was to limit it to 95%.
Zikas
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February 6th, 2013 11:00
Hi Pete,
try to use the rate from 1 to 95.
If this option is not specified a value will be calculated and specified automatically.
Actually i am not sure but if you trying to set the value at 99% it has to do with the ballon file that will block that action.
Again i am not sure and i have to investigate ti.
pete2c
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February 6th, 2013 12:00
Thanks. It works fine when we do rate 1-95. The question really is why can't we set it to 100? Why is the limit 95?
pete2c
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February 6th, 2013 14:00
Thank you Cody!
Zikas
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February 6th, 2013 23:00
Thank you Cody