Subj : Re: A question about Nodelist overwriting
To   : DustCouncil
From : Warpslide
Date : Tue Oct 26 2021 07:04 pm

On 26 Oct 2021, DustCouncil said the following...
 
 Du> [Question]: Can anyone provide some guidance for how to deal with
 Du> nodelists piling up, as per above?

So I've been giving this some thought.  I prefer the way fsxNet deals with this as well.  I'm not really sure I need every nodelist ever hanging around for time and eternity.

Sure, there may some fascination down the line to know what the nodelist looked like the 2nd week of August back in <insert year here>, but there may be other places to scratch that itch.  For me I'm not sure I need a couple hundred old nodelists laying around.

I'm considering implementing this:

find /path/to/files/* -mtime +90 -exec echo {} \;

This will show you all files older than 90 days in a particular directory.  Replace echo with rm if you want to delete those files. Use at your own risk.

Combined with running this in mutil:

[General]
PackFileBases = true

[PackFileBases]
check_files = true
remove_missing = true


It seems like it may be a good way to get rid of older files in your file bases, unless someone has a more elegant solution?


Jay

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