I'm working on a project where I used a script to create close to 500k symlinks and when I tried to delete them the entire system locked up. Waiting did nothing so I hard reset. The system took a very long time to get to the desktop and when it did it was just a black screen. Explorer would not start basically. By unplugging the drives and using diskpart to offline them I was able to determine it was the drives in the pool where the symlinks were created as taking them offline allowed the system to boot. Using a combination of the WinRE and robocopy I was able to delete these reparse files which looked like they were related to the large number of files.
I honestly have no idea how drivepool works other than I can consolidate my drives in to one pool. I did some testing and found that if I do not use a pooled drive I am able to create 2000 symlinks a second vs 200 on the pooled drive. Im assuming that my issue with the lockout is also related to drivepool but I was hoping someone could shed some light on this and educate me or point me in the right direction. Also help me find a solution to this problem.
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Unfunded3079
Hey all!
I'm working on a project where I used a script to create close to 500k symlinks and when I tried to delete them the entire system locked up. Waiting did nothing so I hard reset. The system took a very long time to get to the desktop and when it did it was just a black screen. Explorer would not start basically. By unplugging the drives and using diskpart to offline them I was able to determine it was the drives in the pool where the symlinks were created as taking them offline allowed the system to boot. Using a combination of the WinRE and robocopy I was able to delete these reparse files which looked like they were related to the large number of files.
I honestly have no idea how drivepool works other than I can consolidate my drives in to one pool. I did some testing and found that if I do not use a pooled drive I am able to create 2000 symlinks a second vs 200 on the pooled drive. Im assuming that my issue with the lockout is also related to drivepool but I was hoping someone could shed some light on this and educate me or point me in the right direction. Also help me find a solution to this problem.
Thanks!
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