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PowerScale OneFS 9.5.0.0 Web Administration Guide

Protection domain considerations

You can manually create protection domains before they are required by OneFS to perform certain actions. However, manually creating protection domains can limit your ability to interact with the data marked by the domain.

  • Copying a large number of files into a protection domain might take a very long time because each file must be marked individually as belonging to the protection domain.

  • You cannot move directories in or out of protection domains. However, you can move a directory contained in a protection domain to another location within the same protection domain.

  • Creating a protection domain for a directory that contains a large number of files will take more time than creating a protection domain for a directory with fewer files. Because of this, it is recommended that you create protection domains for directories while the directories are empty, and then add files to the directory.

  • If a domain is currently preventing the modification or deletion of a file, you cannot create a protection domain for a directory that contains that file. For example, if /ifs/data/smartlock/file.txt is set to a WORM state by a SmartLock domain, you cannot create a SnapRevert domain for /ifs/data/.

NOTE:If you use SyncIQ to create a replication policy for a SmartLock compliance directory, the SyncIQ and SmartLock compliance domains must be configured at the same root directory level. A SmartLock compliance domain cannot be nested inside a SyncIQ domain.

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