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<p class="MsoNormal">Venkat, thankyou.  I have a support ticket open on this issue, and will keep this option handy!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org [mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Venkateswara R Puvvada<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 08, 2017 7:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Deletion of a pcache snapshot?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Snapshots created by AFM (recovery, resync or peer snapshots) cannot be deleted by user using mmdelsnapshot command directly.  After recovery or resync completion they get deleted
 automatically. For peer snapshots deletion  mmpsnasp command is used.  Which version of GPFS? Try with -p (undocumented) option.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">mmdelsnapshot device snapname -j fset -p</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">~Venkat (<a href="mailto:vpuvvada@in.ibm.com">vpuvvada@in.ibm.com</a>)</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F">From:        </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Malka, Janusz" <<a href="mailto:janusz.malka@desy.de">janusz.malka@desy.de</a>></span><br>
<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F">To:        </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">gpfsug main discussion list <<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org">gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</a>></span><br>
<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F">Date:        </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">09/08/2017 12:53 AM</span><br>
<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F">Subject:        </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Deletion of a pcache snapshot?</span><br>
<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F">Sent by:        </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I had similar issue, I had to recover connection to home  </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"John Hearns" <<a href="mailto:john.hearns@asml.com">john.hearns@asml.com</a>><b><br>
To: </b>"gpfsug main discussion list" <<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org">gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</a>><b><br>
Sent: </b>Thursday, 7 September, 2017 17:52:19<b><br>
Subject: </b>[gpfsug-discuss] Deletion of a pcache snapshot?</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Firmly lining myself up for a smack round the chops with a wet haddock…</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">I try to delete an AFM cache fileset which I create da few days ago (it has an NFS home)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Mmdelfileset responds that :</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Fileset  obfuscated has 1 fileset snapshot(s).</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">When I try to delete the snapshot:</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Snapshot obfuscated.afm.1234 is an internal pcache recovery snapshot and cannot be deleted by user.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">I find this reference, which is about as useful as a wet haddock:</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">The advice of the gallery is sought, please.</span><br>
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