signal loom
I know there's a limit called "maxdirsize" but how do you check on current directories and how many megabytes has already been allocated?
I have a folder with 600k files and steadily growing, would be nice to see how close it is to the limit.
I was hoping to see this mentioned in the Filesystem analytics page in System manager but I think it just lists number of files.
tawny niche
There are EMS messages when you get close or hit the limit. https://kb.netapp.com/onprem/ontap/os/Max_Directory_size_error_-_AutoSupport_message
If you know the path, you can look at the size of the directory via ls and compare that to maxdirsize.
signal loom
And how do I use "ls" in ONTAP 9.12 ?
calm cargo
You do it in the client afaik
blazing coral
ls doesn't show you the "size" of the directory. It shows you the files in it. The directory size in ONTAP is actually more, because ONTAP stores for example 2 or 3 different file names for each file, depending on volume language etc.
tawny niche
ls -lsd can show you the size of the directory entry, which corresponds with maxdirsize. Might need -k or -h depending on flavor of ls/unix to get more human readable output.
signal loom
And can someone provide a way to do this in the ONTAP node shell?
craggy cedar
you really don't want 600k in one "folder" ... it's just going to be very slow, fwiw
signal loom
Performance might not be a requirement, I still wish to know how to check the current directory file size from within ONTAP.
tiny finch
And can someone provide a way to do this in the ONTAP node shell?
Not from support.
Just mount from NFS and do a ls -lah.
There might be some diag "inode" show command but I really don't know enough to say.
signal loom
Found it! So to answer my own question if someone is searching here:
node run -node <node>; priv set diag; ls -ld /vol/<volume>/<path>
(size is displayed in bytes, so divide by 1048576 to get MB)