> 1) How is file deletion handled?
This depends on whether there's snapshot and whether COW is needed. If COW
is not needed or there's no snapshot at all, then the file deletion is
handled as non-compressed file(don't decompress the data blocks and simply
discard the data blocks, then delete the
Shaun,
have you had a look at the following section of the knowledge centre?
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_5.0.0/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r00.doc/bl1adm_compression.htm#compression__sec_updates
I think the answer to your question is going to depend on a number of
I've had the question come up about how SS will handle file deletion as well as
overhead required for compression using zl4.
The two questions I'm looking for answers (or better yet, reference material
documenting) to are:
1)
-How is file deletion handled?
Is the block containing the
