For speed Olafβs recommendation is the best option. If you really do not want to remove the file systems and recreate them, and the version of Scale is fairly current, you could use the mmfind command to simplify creating a policy to remove the files. Still removing 50M files will take some time.
Fred Fred Stock, Spectrum Scale Development Advocacy [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | 720-430-8821 From: gpfsug-discuss <[email protected]> on behalf of Olaf Weiser <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, June 30, 2022 at 8:09 AM To: 'gpfsug main discussion list' <[email protected]> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [gpfsug-discuss] quickest way to delete all files (and directories) in a file system Hi Tina, I think its much faster to recreate the file system after that .. it is enough to do mmauth grant {RemoteClusterName | all} -f {Device in my case ..its always ... grant all -f all π β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerStart This Message Is From an External Sender This message came from outside your organization. ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerEnd Hi Tina, I think its much faster to recreate the file system after that .. it is enough to do mmauth grant {RemoteClusterName | all} -f {Device in my case ..its always ... grant all -f all π and every remote mount will work as before.. the remote cluster key information is in the cluster CCR .. not in the filesystem.. Pay attention.. when you 'll create the file system, it will be created with the current code's version... in Case remote cluster is backlevel.. don't forget to specify --version have fun π ________________________________ Von: gpfsug-discuss <[email protected]> im Auftrag von Tina Friedrich <[email protected]> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. Juni 2022 13:31 An: 'gpfsug main discussion list' <[email protected]> Betreff: [EXTERNAL] [gpfsug-discuss] quickest way to delete all files (and directories) in a file system Hello everyone, this should be a simple question, but we can't quite figure out how to best proceed. We have some file systems that we want to, basically, empty out. As in remove all files and directories currently on them. Both contain a pretty large number of files/directories (something like 50,000,000, with sometimes silly characters in the file names). 'rm -rf' clearly isn't the way to go forward. We've come up with either 'mmapplypolicy' (i.e. a policy to remove all files) or removing and re-creating the file systems as options (open to other suggestions!). We want the file systems still; ideally without having to redo the authentication and key swaps etc for the 'remote' clusters using them. This is a Lenovo DSS, but I don't think it makes much of a difference. So - what's the best way to proceed? If it is mmapplypolicy - does anyone have a (tested/known working) example of a policy to simply remove all files? Thanks, Tina -- Tina Friedrich, Advanced Research Computing Snr HPC Systems Administrator Research Computing and Support Services IT Services, University of Oxford http://www.arc.ox.ac.uk<http://www.arc.ox.ac.uk> http://www.it.ox.ac.uk<http://www.it.ox.ac.uk> _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org<http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org> H
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