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Viewing the deduplication status for a volume

You can view the status of deduplication operations on a volume by using the sis status command.

Step

  1. Enter the following command:sis status -l path

    path is the complete path to the FlexVol volume. For example, /vol/vol1.

    The sis status command is the basic command. For more information about the sis status command, see the sis(1) man page.

    The following table lists and describes status and progress messages that you might see after running the sis status -l command.

    Message (message type) Meaning
    Idle (status and progress) No deduplication activity.
    Pending (status) The limit of maximum concurrent deduplication operations allowed for a storage system or a vFiler unit is reached. Any deduplication operation requested beyond this limit will be queued.
    Active (status) Deduplication operations are running.
    size Scanned (progress) A scan of the entire volume is running of which size is already scanned.
    size Searched (progress) A search of duplicated data is running of which size is already searched.
    size (pct) Done (progress) Deduplication operations have saved size amounts of data. pct is the percentage saved of the total duplicated data that was discovered in the search stage.
    size Verified (progress) A verification of the metadata of processed data blocks is running of which size is already verified.
    pct% merged (progress) Deduplication operations have merged pct% percentage of all verified metadata of processed data blocks to an internal format which supports fast deduplication operations.