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Paid Storage (/zfs)

ZFS Sales Suspended

We are no longer selling storage space on our legacy ZFS system. Please see our new project storage offering on the Indigo Data Lake.

Paid storage is a data space that is bought by researchers to store their data, results, or software long term. This space is backed up every day and protected against hardware failures.

Storage owners access their data space by /zfs/{group}, where {group} is a Linux group name agreed upon between the owner and the RCDE group. Only users who are in the {group} are permitted to access an owner’s data space.

Security Notice

Modifying the membership of a paid storage group requires permission from the owner. Only the owner may submit a group membership update request.

Paid storage can be accessed anywhere in the cluster by issuing a cd to that space from the command line.

Purchasing​

Users interested in purchasing paid storage should consult the Purchase Guide.

Check Quota​

From the login node, the checkzfs command can be used to check the amount of your /zfs space that has been used and your current quota.

$ checkzfs mylab
DATE:  2023-01-23 15:23:01.351497
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USAGE FOR /zfs/mylab
Purchased: 25.0 TiB
Used: 8.4 TiB
Available: 16.6 TiB

Please leave 10% of the purchased amount for snapshots.

You should also use checkzfs -a to see the primary and backup servers.

$ checkzfs -a mylab
DATE:  2023-01-23 15:22:35.676418
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USAGE FOR /zfs/mylab
Purchased: 25.0 TiB
Used: 8.4 TiB
   Used by primary zfs_data_1/mylab on hpczfs05: 8.3 TiB
      Used by dataset: 8.3 TiB
      Used by snapshots: 48.8 GiB
   Used by backup zfs_data_1/mylab on hpczfsback02: 8.4 TiB
      Used by dataset: 8.3 TiB
      Used by snapshots: 31.8 GiB
Available: 16.6 TiB

Please leave 10% of the purchased amount for snapshots.

By default, the checkzfs utility will report whichever server has higher utilization. In some cases, the utilization on the backup server may be higher than the primary server. If you are close to the quota on the backup server, reducing your utilization on the primary server will also reduce your utilization on the backup server after some time.