Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Unkillable snapshots

2020-02-20 Thread Nathan Falk
Good point, Simon. Yes, it is a "file system quiesce" not a "fileset quiesce" so it is certainly possible that mmfsd is unable to quiesce because there are processes keeping files open in another fileset. Nate Falk IBM Spectrum Scale Level 2 Support Software Defined Infrastructure, IBM

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Unkillable snapshots

2020-02-20 Thread Nathan Falk
Hello Simon, Sadly, that "1036" is not a node ID, but just a counter. These are tricky to troubleshoot. Usually, by the time you realize it's happening and try to collect some data, things have already timed out. Since this mmdelsnapshot isn't something that's on a schedule from cron or the

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmdf and maybe other commands long running // influence of n and B on number of regions

2020-02-10 Thread Nathan Falk
Hello Walter, If you anticipate that the number of clients accessing this file system may grow as high as 5000, then that is probably the value you should use when creating the file system. The data structures (regions for example) are allocated at file system creation time (more precisely at

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Adding to an existing GPFS ACL

2019-03-27 Thread Nathan Falk
I think I gave an internal link. Try this instead: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10716323 Nate Falk IBM Spectrum Scale Level 2 Support Software Defined Infrastructure, IBM Systems E-mail: nf...@us.ibm.com Find me on: From: "Nathan Falk" To: g

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Adding to an existing GPFS ACL

2019-03-27 Thread Nathan Falk
Hello Kevin, No, you're not missing something. GPFS doesn't provide a means of recursively modifying ACLs. It's not even all that easy to just modify one ACL for one file (it's either mmeditacl, or mmgetacl > /tmp/acl.txt; vi /tmp/acl.txt; mmputacl -i /tmp/acl.txt). I've had a few queries