I have set the file to Read Only exactly Monday Sep. 15, 2008 09:59am (CEST)... after 3 hours (12:59am) I can delete the file... for about 30 minutes it was not deleteable...
 
now the delay was about 3 hours.... Is it always 3 hours? Can I speed it up? How?
 
 
 
 

From: Steiner, Jeffrey [mailto:Jeffrey.Steiner@netapp.com]
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 12:42 PM
To: Steffen Kammerer; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: Snaplock Enterprise

Sorry, I mentally transposed Enterprise and Compliance. In any case, the volume type is tied to the aggregate type.
 
Still, you should be able to delete the file with a retention time of 0d. That means WORM but deleteable right away. I've done it within scripts a few times where I needed a file WORM right away but there was a delay in determining what the retention time should be. The script set that later on.

From: Steffen Kammerer [mailto:steffen.kammerer@brainlab.com]
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 11:17 AM
To: Steiner, Jeffrey; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: Snaplock Enterprise

I have set the retention time to 0d but it is not deleteable... I think you have to wait for at least 23 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds...
 
I have installed snaplock enterprise, so I can offline and destroy volumes to test...
 
 

From: Steiner, Jeffrey [mailto:Jeffrey.Steiner@netapp.com]
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 12:12 PM
To: Steffen Kammerer; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: Snaplock Enterprise

When you set a file to read-only with a retention time of zero days, the file should be WORM but deleteable immediately. A snaplock volume is tied to the overall aggregate, so it is correct that a Snaplock Enterprise aggregate can host only Snaplock Enteprise volumes.
 
Be extremely careful. If you commit a file with a particular retention date, you cannot delete the volume or the aggregate until all the contained files are expired. There is no back door.

From: Steffen Kammerer [mailto:steffen.kammerer@brainlab.com]
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 10:13 AM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Snaplock Enterprise

Hi all,
 
have anyone experienced snaplock enterprise?
 
I have a snaplock enterprise aggregate in which I create volumes. As far as I know the volume will inherit the snaplock enterprise. The compliance clock is also set.
 
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The options of my testvol look like
 
xxxxxx> vol options testvol
nosnap=off, nosnapdir=off, minra=off, no_atime_update=on, nvfail=off,
ignore_inconsistent=off, snapmirrored=off, create_ucode=off,
convert_ucode=off, maxdirsize=20971, schedsnapname=ordinal,
fs_size_fixed=off, snaplock_enterprise, guarantee=volume,
svo_enable=off, svo_checksum=off, svo_allow_rman=off,
svo_reject_errors=off, no_i2p=off, fractional_reserve=100,
snaplock_default_period=min, snaplock_minimum_period=0d,
snaplock_maximum_period=30y, extent=off, try_first=volume_grow
 
snaplock options look like
 
xxxxxx> options snaplock
snaplock.autocommit_period   none
snaplock.compliance.write_verify off
 
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If I copy data in this volume (using cifs) and change the files to read only I can not change data any more. But the snaplock_minimum_period is set to 0 days.
 
Now my final question:
 
Is it not possible to create volumes within a snaplock enterprise aggregate without using snaplock enterprise?!
 
Do you have any hints?!
 
Regards,
 
Steffen