Privileged File Retention

The privileged policy provides an override mechanism to allow retained files to be deleted before the expiry date. This requires the share to be exported with root access for NFS, and the user on the NFS client must be root.

A file's retained-until-expiration date can be set either manually before the file is marked as readonly or calculated based on last modification. When automatic retention is enabled, a file that has not been modified for the grace period is automatically retained for the time indicated by the default period. Files that are automatically retained can have their retained-until-expiration date manually set longer.

Unlike mandatory file retention, privileged file retention does not protect the share, project nor storage pool in which the retained file is contained. Therefore, a share, project, or storage pool containing actively retained files can be destroyed (share and project) or unconfigured (storage pool) at any time.