Hello,

I'm a bit confused as the parameters for nfexpire and how they work together...

If we set an 'expire after X days' (-t) then data will be expired after that 
period of time.

If we set an 'maximum size X' (-s) then data will be expired when it reaches 
that size.

I assume these two run in OR mode so if EITHER are hit, files will be expired.


What I'm unsure about is the 'low water mark' (-w) option -- in the manpage, 
it's described as "Set  the water mark in % for expiring data. If a limit is 
hit, files get expired down to this level in % of that limit. If not set, the 
default is 95%."

This sounds like no expiring happens until either the size or date is exceeded 
and then files will be removed until whichever limit is hit is reduced to 95% 
of it's value.

In other words - if I set the maximum size to 100G and the water mark to 90% 
then, assuming the maximum life limit hasn't been hit, then, once 100G has been 
exceed, files will be removed until the total size is no more than 90G.

Similarly, if I choose to keep data for 10 days, once the cache directory has 
>10 days of files, it will be removed down to 9 days of files there.

Is that right?

  - Bob


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Bob Franklin   [email protected] / (+44 1223 7) 48479
Networks, University Information Services, University of Cambridge


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