Re: Removing files directly on filer?

Hi Justin and all the other fellow toasters that offered suggestions,

Well I finally got around to upgrading our cluster to 9.8P3 and trying async-delete. It worked… poof… gone… the offending files are never to be seen again.

I did have a bit of confusion abut how to define the -path option. The volume name was “home” and the offending files were contained in "/home/fereyes/Pm12” as seen from the NAS client. The full command that worked was:

async-delete start -vserver our-svm-hs1 -volume home -path fereyes/Pm12

Thanks,
Scott

> On Mar 26, 2021, at 12:11 PM, Parisi, Justin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> If you are on ONTAP 9.8, we have async delete.
>  
> TR-4571 – page 108
>  
> https://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-4571.pdf <https://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-4571.pdf>
>  
> That allows you to delete directories (not files) from the ONTAP CLI.
>  
> Otherwise, no real way to do this.
>  
> For unusual characters, the vol language might be an issue; as of 9.5 and later, we added support for utf9mb4 characters, which can help translate those weird characters. Page 120 of that TR also covers it.
>  
> I would reproduce your issue, but I can’t seem to replicate the special characters in your list.
>  
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> 
> Hello Fellow Toasters, 
>  
> I have several files that have an unusual characters in their names. Here are 3 examples.
>  
> 99027496 -rwxr--r--. 1 fereyes sibyls 138284 Dec 17  2012 _Volumes_fereyes_Pm12_img12_data1_pxuser_cech3_px07-0106_Pm12_7_process_mr_AutoMR_run_9__combined_refine_001.pdb_Mon_Dec_17_15"17"10_2012_modification_0.pdb.gz
> 99027497 -rwxr--r--. 1 fereyes sibyls 137894 Dec 17  2012 _Volumes_fereyes_Pm12_img12_data1_pxuser_cech3_px07-0106_Pm12_7_process_mr_AutoMR_run_9__combined_refine_001.pdb_Mon_Dec_17_15"17"10_2012_modification_1.pdb.gz
> 99027498 -rwxr--r--. 1 fereyes sibyls 137467 Dec 17  2012 _Volumes_fereyes_Pm12_img12_data1_pxuser_cech3_px07-0106_Pm12_7_process_mr_AutoMR_run_9__combined_refine_001.pdb_Mon_Dec_17_15"17"10_2012_modification_2.pdb.gz
>  
> I would like to delete them. I have tried all the tricks I know of to delete them from the NFS client side including the usually-bullet-proof method of deleting them by inode:
>  
> ls -li 
>  
> To get the inode then:
>  
> find . -inum 99027498 -exec rm -i {} \;
>  
> and this is not working.
>  
> Is there some way to remove folders/files from the NetApp itself?
>  
> Thanks,
> Scott

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