About this task
This task modifies any or all of the following filesystem attributes:
- Name
- Size
- Thin provisioning
- Pool membership
- SSD cache
- Compression
- Snapshot directory accessibility
A filesystem can only have its size increased. Shrinking a filesystem is not supported.
Prerequisites
- A filesystem
Instructions
- In the GUI, click the Datasets icon in the left toolbar.
- In the Datasets tab, right-click the filesystem name, or open the action menu in the settings column of the filesystem row.
- To delete the filesystem, select Delete Filesystem, and approve the warning message.
- To replicate the filesystem, select Replicate this Filesystem.
See Overview of replication or Creating a replica. - To modify the filesystem, select Modify Filesystem.
The Modify Filesystem window opens. - On the left side of the Modify Filesystem window, you can:
- Change the name of the filesystem.
- Enlarge the filesystem size.
- Change whether the filesystem is thin provisioned.
- Change the pool that the filesystem belongs to.
- Click Advanced for more options.
- Change whether to allow the filesystem to use the system's SSD cache.
Note: This setting is sometimes referred to as 'flash cache', 'flash enabled', or 'SSD enabled'. - Change whether to enable compression for data reduction.
- Change whether to allow snapshot directory accessibility.
- Change whether to allow the filesystem to use the system's SSD cache.
- The gauges on the right side of the window show how the changes will impact pool capacity.
- Click Modify.
Related GUI tasks
You can modify other filesystem values using the following tasks:
Related InfiniShell commands
Modifying the filesystem attributes using InfiniShell is available via the following commands:
fs.cache
- enabling the filesystem to use InfiniBox flash cachefs.rename
- renaming the filesystemfs.resize
- resizing the filesystemfs.set_compression
- enabling compression for data reductionfs.set_thin
- setting the filesystem provisioning type
Last edited: 2022-04-26 10:40:09 UTC
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