Is this still true if the source and target fileset are both in the same 
storage pool? It seems like they could just move the metadata… Especially in 
the case of dependent filesets where the metadata is actually in the same 
allocation area for both the source and target.

Maybe this just doesn’t happen often enough to optimize?

-- 
Stephen



> On Apr 16, 2020, at 12:50 PM, Oesterlin, Robert <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Moving data between filesets is like moving files between file systems. 
> Normally when you move files between directories, it’s simple metadata, but 
> with filesets (dependent or independent) is a full copy and delete of the old 
> data.
>  
>  
> Bob Oesterlin
> Sr Principal Storage Engineer, Nuance
>  
>  
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>  
> I have filesets setup in a filesystem...looks like: 
> [root@cl005 ~]# mmlsfileset home -L
> Filesets in file system 'home':
> Name                            Id      RootInode  ParentId Created           
>            InodeSpace      MaxInodes    AllocInodes Comment
> root                             0              3        -- Tue Jun 30 
> 07:54:09 2015        0            402653184      320946176 root fileset
> hess                             1      543733376         0 Tue Jun 13 
> 14:56:13 2017        0                    0              0 
> predictHPC                       2        1171116         0 Thu Jan  5 
> 15:16:56 2017        0                    0              0 
> HYCCSIM                          3      544258049         0 Wed Jun 14 
> 10:00:41 2017        0                    0              0 
> socialdet                        4      544258050         0 Wed Jun 14 
> 10:01:02 2017        0                    0              0 
> arc                              5        1171073         0 Thu Jan  5 
> 15:07:09 2017        0                    0              0 
> arcadm                           6        1171074         0 Thu Jan  5 
> 15:07:10 2017        0                    0              0 
>  
> I beleive these are dependent filesets.  Dependent on the root fileset.   
> Anyhow a user wants to move a large amount of data from one fileset to 
> another.   Would this be a metadata only operation?  He has attempted to 
> small amount of data and has noticed some thrasing.
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