Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How to do multiple mounts via GPFS

2022-02-22 Thread Alec
The trick for us on AIX in the inittab I have a script fswait.ksh and monitors for the cluster mount point to be available before allowing the cluster dependent startup item (lower in the inittab) I'm pretty sure Linux has a way to define a dependent service.. define a cluster ready service and

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How to do multiple mounts via GPFS

2022-02-22 Thread Alec
elegantly. Alec On Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 9:37 AM Skylar Thompson wrote: > Assuming this is on Linux, you ought to be able to use bind mounts for > that, something like this in fstab or equivalent: > > /home /gpfs1/home bind defaults 0 0 > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 12:24:09PM -0500, Jus

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup file selections

2022-02-07 Thread Alec
ork on the weekends. Alec On Mon, Feb 7, 2022, 8:39 AM Paul Ward wrote: > Backups seem to have settled down. > A workshop with our partner and IBM is in the pipeline. > > > Kindest regards, > Paul > > Paul Ward > TS Infrastructure Architect > Natural History Museum >

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] snapshots causing filesystem quiesce

2022-02-02 Thread Alec
.. Perhaps drop the pagepool in half and see if your timeout adjusts accordingly? Alec On Wed, Feb 2, 2022, 4:09 AM Olaf Weiser wrote: > keep in mind... creating many snapshots... means ;-) .. you'll have to > delete many snapshots.. > at a certain level, which depends on #files, #di

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How do I add a new IP to the configuration?

2022-01-21 Thread Alec
to consume that network design. What you can't do is straight up put two IP's from different subnets on the same interface. Essentially the logical interface will look at it's IP, it's Subnet combine the values with your new IP and say, hey wrong network. Alec On Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 7:17 AM Jesus Mora

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] 5.1.2.2 changes

2022-01-20 Thread Alec
on most other Unit FSs. Alec On Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 3:10 AM Billich Heinrich Rainer (ID) < heinrich.bill...@id.ethz.ch> wrote: > Hello, > > I just wonder if I can set a fileset to readonly - or link it as > readonly. When I do data migration or finished a project which has

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] R: R: Question on changing mode on many files

2021-12-13 Thread Alec
. As a footnote this is my all time favorite find for troubleshooting... find $(pwd) -mtime -1 | sed -e 's/.*/"&"/g' | xargs ls -latr List all the files modified in the last day in reverse chronology... Doesn't work :-( Alec On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 3:30 AM Dorigo Alvise (PSI) wro

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] WAS: alternative path; Now: RDMA

2021-12-12 Thread Alec
different questions about RDMA. Alec On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 3:19 AM Jonathan Buzzard < jonathan.buzz...@strath.ac.uk> wrote: > On 12/12/2021 02:19, Alec wrote: > > > I feel the need to respond here... I see many responses on this > > User Group forum that are

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Question on changing mode on many files

2021-12-12 Thread Alec
o find a way to pre-compile mmfind and make it supported, it really is essential and so beneficial, and so hard to get done in a production regulated environment. Though a bigger warning that the compress option is an action not a criteria! Alec On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 9:01 AM Simon Thompson

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Question on changing mode on many files

2021-12-11 Thread Alec
getting into usage. Alec On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 7:43 AM Jonathan Buzzard < jonathan.buzz...@strath.ac.uk> wrote: > On 07/12/2021 14:55, Simon Thompson wrote: > > > > Or add: > >UPDATECTIME yes > >SKIPACLUPDATECHECKyes > > &

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] WAS: alternative path; Now: RDMA

2021-12-11 Thread Alec
the application / environment need, it's nice to see Spectrum Scale have the flexibility to deliver. I'm pretty confident that if I can't deliver the required I/O performance on Spectrum Scale, nobody else can on any other storage platform within reasonable limits. Alec Effrat On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Handling bad file names in policies?

2021-10-08 Thread Alec
Well How about: define(DISPLAY_NEWLINE,[CASE WHEN ($1) *HAS NEWLINE* THEN *REPLACE NEWLINE WITH ALTERNATE CHARACTER* ELSE varchar(1) END]) Define your show to have the DISPLAY_NEWLINE in place of the file name? Sorry I don't know offhand how to do the find newline and replace newline sql

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Handling bad file names in policies?

2021-10-08 Thread Alec
Why not just configure a file placement policy using a non existent pool or a bad encryption key to prevent files with non-printables characters from even being created in the first place. Alec On Fri, Oct 8, 2021, 11:49 AM Wahl, Edward wrote: > This goes back as far as I can recall to <

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Quick delete of huge tree

2021-04-20 Thread Alec
of the directory tree. Maybe it's cheaper to make a new filesystem and just retain the data you want though... Alec On Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 6:51 AM Jonathan Buzzard < jonathan.buzz...@strath.ac.uk> wrote: > On 20/04/2021 13:09, Ulrich Sibiller wrote: > > >> > >> Co

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Backing up GPFS with Rsync

2021-03-09 Thread Alec
single ACL on our file system... and have a script to apply the ACL's as a "restore". It's a pretty simple thing to write-up and keeping 90 day history on this lets me compare the ACL evolution on a file very easily. Alec MVH Most Victorious Hunting (Why should Scandinavians own this

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Self service creation of filesets

2021-03-02 Thread Alec
like discovering directories that have user.archive=true and automatically gzipping large files within. Would be nice if GPFS policy engine could have a IF_ANCESTOR_ATTRIBUTE=. Alec On Tue, Mar 2, 2021, 11:40 AM Russell Nordquist wrote: > Hi all > > We are trying to use filesets qu

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] gpfsug-discuss Digest, Vol 108, Issue 18

2021-02-01 Thread Alec
quite a few things from monitoring this list in a very short period of time. * If a candidate ever tells me they know everything about Unix... I pass. We're all very experienced noobies in this ever progressing field/platform. * Alec On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 1:58 PM Jonathan Buzzard < jona

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] gpfsug-discuss Digest, Vol 108, Issue 18

2021-01-29 Thread Alec
nipulation.html#ixzz6l0Egm6hp On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 7:39 PM Owen Morgan < owen.mor...@motionpicturesolutions.com> wrote: > Alec, > > Thank you for your response! > > I get it now! And, I also understand some of the other peoples responses > better as well! > >

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] gpfsug-discuss Digest, Vol 108, Issue 18

2021-01-29 Thread Alec
Also a caution on this... you may want to retain the file's modified time in something like purge.modified... so you can also re-calc for files where purge.modified != file modified time. Else you may purge something too early. Alec On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 6:53 PM Alec wrote: > Ba

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] gpfsug-discuss Digest, Vol 108, Issue 18

2021-01-29 Thread Alec
having the attribute. Then use a single purge policy to query all files that have a purge.after set to the appropriate datestamp. You could get way more concise with this mechanism and have a much simpler process. Alec On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 4:32 PM Owen Morgan < owen.

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Spectrum Scale 5 and Reading Compressed Data

2021-01-22 Thread Alec
a wouldn't be a better solution. Alec On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 2:10 PM Alec wrote: > I see a lot of references to the page pool. Our page pool is only 8 gb and > our files can be very large into the terrabytes. > > I will try increasing the page pool in dev to 2x a test file and see if

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Spectrum Scale 5 and Reading Compressed Data

2021-01-20 Thread Alec
get rights for the debug as well. Alec ___ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss

[gpfsug-discuss] Spectrum Scale 5 and Reading Compressed Data

2021-01-20 Thread Alec
, within a minute the file is decompressed, and backed up, then I simply recompress the file once backup has moved on. Any advice on how to improve the compressed reads under AIX would be very helpful. Alec ___ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss