[gpfsug-discuss] immutable folder

Wed Feb 23 11:03:37 GMT 2022

Its not a fileset, its just a folder, well a subfolder…

[filesystem/[fileset]/share/data/iac/[user] 2004-2014/Laboratory Impact experiments/LGG shots/Kent LGG/Kent aerogel LGG shots/Lizardite in aerogel/Nick Foster's sample

It’s the “Nick Foster's sample” folder I want to delete, but it says it is immutable and I can’t disable that.

I suspect it’s the apostrophe confusing things.

Kindest regards,
Paul

Paul Ward
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Natural History Museum
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Scale disallows deleting fileset junction using rmdir, so I suggested mmunlinkfileset.

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Thank you for the suggestion… The fileset is in active use and is backed up using spectrum protect. This is therefore advised against. Was this option suggested to ‘close open files’ ? The issue is a directory not files. ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerStart
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Thank you for the suggestion…

The fileset is in active use and is backed up using spectrum protect.

This is therefore advised against.

Was this option suggested to ‘close open files’ ?

The issue is a directory not files.

Kindest regards,

Paul

Paul Ward

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Hi Paul,

Have you tried mmunlinkfileset first?

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HI, I have a folder that I can’t delete. IAM mode – non-compliant It is empty: file name: Nick Foster's sample/ metadata replication: 2 max 2 ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerStart
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HI,

I have a folder that I can’t delete.

IAM mode – non-compliant

It is empty:

file name:            Nick Foster's sample/

metadata replication: 2 max 2

immutable:            yes

appendOnly:           no

indefiniteRetention:  no

expiration Time:      Thu Jan  9 23:10:25 2020

flags:

storage pool name:    system

fileset name:         bulk-fset

snapshot name:

creation time:        Sat Jan  9 04:44:16 2016

Misc attributes:      DIRECTORY READONLY

Encrypted:            no

Try and turn off immutability:

mmchattr -i no "Nick Foster's sample"

Nick Foster's sample: Change immutable flag failed: Operation not permitted.

Can not set immutable or appendOnly flag to No and indefiniteRetention flag to Unchanged, Permission denied!

So can’t leave it unchanged… Tried setting indefiniteRetention no and yes:

mmchattr -i no --indefinite-retention no "Nick Foster's sample"

Nick Foster's sample: Change immutable, enforceRetention flags failed: Operation not permitted.

Can not set immutable or appendOnly flag to No and indefiniteRetention flag to No, Permission denied!

mmchattr -i no --indefinite-retention yes "Nick Foster's sample"

Nick Foster's sample: Change immutable, enforceRetention flags failed: Operation not permitted.

Can not set immutable or appendOnly flag to No and indefiniteRetention flag to Yes, Permission denied!

Any ideas?

Kindest regards,

Paul

Paul Ward

TS Infrastructure Architect

Natural History Museum

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E: p.ward at nhm.ac.uk<mailto:p.ward at nhm.ac.uk>

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