topic Pre-positioning/pre-loading flexcache volumes in ONTAP Hardware https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Pre-positioning-pre-loading-flexcache-volumes/m-p/27508#M1892 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>What is the best way to pre-position or pre-loading data into a flexcache volume to a SAx00 appliance?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:28:49 GMT shiozaki 2025-06-05T07:28:49Z Pre-positioning/pre-loading flexcache volumes https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Pre-positioning-pre-loading-flexcache-volumes/m-p/27508#M1892 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>What is the best way to pre-position or pre-loading data into a flexcache volume to a SAx00 appliance?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:28:49 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Pre-positioning-pre-loading-flexcache-volumes/m-p/27508#M1892 shiozaki 2025-06-05T07:28:49Z Re: Pre-positioning/pre-loading flexcache volumes https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Pre-positioning-pre-loading-flexcache-volumes/m-p/27513#M1893 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Mark - scripts can be built to read the files through the FlexCache volume, or you can just read the working data set, thereby&nbsp; populating the cache.</P><UL><LI>The scripts need to read every file.</LI><LI>Listing every directory only pulls over basic file info and not the&nbsp; actual data blocks.</LI></UL><PRE><BR /><SPAN style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Something like this:</SPAN> ls –lR * | cat &gt; /dev/null<BR /></PRE></BODY></HTML> Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:05:02 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Pre-positioning-pre-loading-flexcache-volumes/m-p/27513#M1893 martyt 2009-04-29T21:05:02Z