Using the Appliance to Store and Retrieve Data

4 Using the Appliance to Store and Retrieve Data

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Deleting Files

Remove the files that you no longer need from the NFS client by deleting them from the directory on which the filesystem is mounted.

Caution:

If you’ve enabled the check box to delete old file versions in the filesystem, then depending on the configuration settings, the older versions of the objects may be automatically removed from your account.

To delete the older versions of the objects and the corresponding metadata files, log in to the management console, click the filesystem name, and select the check box Delete Old File Versions in the Advanced section of the Settings tab.

The files in the filesystem are not deleted.

For more information, see Enabling File Versions Compaction.

Note:

Deletion of archived objects may result in an early-deletion fee. For more information, go to https://cloud.oracle.com/storage and see the Pricing tab.

Caution:

Don’t use the REST API, Java library, or any other client to retrieve, create, update, or delete objects in a container or bucket that’s mapped to a filesystem in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Storage Software Appliance. Doing so will cause the data in the appliance to become inconsistent with data in your storage service. You can’t recover from this inconsistency.

To prevent unauthorized users from retrieving, creating, updating, or deleting objects in a container or bucket that’s connected to a filesystem in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Storage Software Appliance, define custom roles, assign them to the appropriate container, assign the roles to only the users that should have access to the container, and specify only one of these users when defining the filesystem to be connected to the container or bucket.