Richard,
The documentation says that that you can simply use ‘mv’ on a live fileset too.
I have just tried this and yes it appears to work. I can move a fileset into
another subdirectory of the same filesystem and mmlsfileset confirms the new
mount point.
Daniel
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> On 3 Jan 2018, at 12:37, Sobey, Richard A <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Ah. So I can specify “device filesetname” OR “device -J junctionpath” (and
> mmchfileset gets the filesetname from that).
>
> Ultimately though I cannot change the mount point of the fileset without
> mmunlink / mmlink, right?
>
> Thanks
> Richard
>
>
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>
> -J is to define which fileset you are talking about.
> The alternative is give the fileset name straight after the ‘device’ argument.
>
> Once the fileset is unambiguous, you then use other command line option to
> change things
> e.g. -j to change the *name* of this fileset.
> -j doesn’t change the mount point, and indeed mmcrfileset doesn’t set the
> mount point either.
>
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Dr Daniel Kidger
> IBM Technical Sales Specialist
> Software Defined Solution Sales
>
> + 44-(0)7818 522 266
> [email protected]
>
> On 3 Jan 2018, at 10:38, Sobey, Richard A <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Attempting to change the junction path of a fileset and I’m getting some
> strange output. It may just not be possible but the documentation on
> mmchfileset itself doesn’t make it clear.
>
> mmchfileset gpfs filesetname -J /gpfs/new_path
> mmchfileset: Options -J and FilesetName cannot be specified at the same time.
>
> Which leads to what’s the point of the following command as the error
> suggests it will work:
>
> mmchfileset device -J /gpfs/new_path
>
> …as not specifying a FilesetName to the input of mmchfileset seems odd.
>
> I do of course know that I can just unlink and relink but hey.. trying to
> save a few precious seconds 😊
>
> Cheers
> Richard
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