Thanks John - It did look like it was heading in that direction!

I did wonder if a 'fs map' & 'fs unmap' would be useful too; filesystem
backups,  migrations between clusters & async DR could be facilitated by
moving underlying pool objects around between clusters.

Dave

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:22 AM, John Spray <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> We haven't written any code for the multiple filesystems feature so
> far, but the new "fs new"/"fs rm"/"fs ls" management commands were
> designed with this in mind -- currently only supporting one
> filesystem, but to allow slotting in the multiple filesystems feature
> without too much disruption.  There is some design work to be done as
> well, such as how the system should handle standby MDSs (assigning to
> a particular filesystem, floating between filesystems, etc).
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:11 AM, David Barker <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi Cephalopods,
> >
> > Browsing the list archives, I know this has come up before, but I thought
> > I'd check in for an update.
> >
> > I'm in an environment where it would be useful to run a file system per
> > department in a single cluster (or at a pinch enforcing some client / fs
> > tree security). Has there been much progress recently?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
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