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October 25th, 2013 18:00
Erasing data on Isilon
I have several customers that because of their workload are running scripts inside the nodes in order to erase data from the cluster. The problem we have explained to then is basically that this breaks support policy.
What I want to know is if anybody is running any scripts outside the cluster or any other method that you use to purge the FileSystem from unused files?
christian_isilo
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October 27th, 2013 21:00
Dave,
The main problem has been people writing scripts on the cluster to do things. Since the underlying structure is BSD, people use cron and utilities to do stuff on the cluster itself. In some of these cases, customers have filled key directories and caused the cluster to go down, or deleted key config file scripts, or the script executed commands and deleted data they did not want deleted. Basically, there are no guardrails when you execute cron scripts.
So the general statement from support is - treat this as an appliance that shouldn't be altered and there are too many permutations to support so support is looking to protect the supportability of the system.
Hope you understand
Thank
Christian
Peter_Sero
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October 26th, 2013 03:00
There should be no objection to running
isi job start --path=/ifs/... TreeDelete
on the cluster.
-- Peter
DaveHenry1
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October 26th, 2013 07:00
I'm curious - in what way does this break the support policy?
dynamox
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November 11th, 2013 21:00
if this is an appliance then i should not have root access to the file system. Install busybox but then Isilon would be so painful to manage because the WebUI is lacking badly.
Shaik Ahmed
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May 12th, 2024 10:01
Dear support,
I'm using Isilon storage the size is 2PT
and 1.89 PT is full
i want to delete this data faster way
kindly provide the faster way to delete the data
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DELL-Josh Cr
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May 13th, 2024 13:00
Hi,
Thanks for your question.
What method are you using to delete files? Peter Sero’s method should work isi job start --path=/ifs/... TreeDelete and just pick paths of data you are fine with deleting.
Let us know if you have any additional questions.