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Releasing
Releasing is the process by which the releaser makes disk cache space available by
identifying archived files and releasing their disk cache copy. This makes room for
other files to be created or staged from archive media. The releaser can release only
archived files. A released file has no data on the disk cache.
The Sun StorageTek SAM software automatically invokes the releaser process when
a site-specified disk threshold is reached. Alternatively, you can use the release(1)
command to release a file’s disk space immediately or to set releasing parameters for
a file.
You can also specify that files be released immediately after archiving, that files
never be released, or that files be partially released.
This chapter describes the releasing process and releaser operations. It contains the
following sections:
■ “Releaser Process Overview” on page 115
■ “Releaser Concepts” on page 116
■ “About Partial Releasing and Partial Staging” on page 118
■ “About the releaser.cmd File” on page 121
■ “Planning Releaser Operations” on page 129
■ “Running the Releaser Manually” on page 130
Releaser Process Overview
When file system utilization exceeds its configured high-water mark, the file system
management software invokes the releaser, which does the following:
1. Reads the releaser.cmd file and collects the directives that control the release
process.
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