topic Re: Manage client rights to delete directories rapidly in ONTAP Discussions

Manage client rights to delete directories rapidly

TMADOCTHOMAS — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:52:21 GMT

I am reading up on a new feature in OnTAP 9.11.1, the ability to "manage client rights to delete directories rapidly" (see link below).

This seems like a good feature to simply enable and leave enabled on CIFS Server volumes so Help Desk admins and/or end users can rapidly delete contents that need to be removed. Does anyone know if there is a performance hit, security risk, or some other reason not to enable this feature on a regular basis?

https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/flexgroup/manage-client-async-dir-delete-task.html#enable-client-asynchronous-directory-delete

Re: Manage client rights to delete directories rapidly

paul_stejskal — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 19:47:46 GMT

Ransomware.

Re: Manage client rights to delete directories rapidly

TMADOCTHOMAS — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 19:53:21 GMT

Well that gets right to the point @paul_stejskal ! Thank you. I should have thought of that myself. We'll make it an enable-as-needed feature!