Re: [gpfsug-discuss] AFM-DR Questions

2018-03-30 Thread IBM Spectrum Scale
+ Venkat to provide answers on AFM queries Regards, The Spectrum Scale (GPFS) team -- If you feel that your question can benefit other users of Spectrum Scale (GPFS), then please

[gpfsug-discuss] Tentative Agenda - SSUG-US Spring Meeting - May 16/17, Cambridge MA

2018-03-30 Thread Oesterlin, Robert
Here is the Tentative Agenda for the upcoming SSUG-US meeting. It’s close to final. I do have one (possibly two) spots for customer talks still open. This is a fantastic agenda, and a big thanks to Ulf Troppens at IBM for pulling together all the IBM speakers. Register here:

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] sublocks per block in GPFS 5.0

2018-03-30 Thread Marc A Kaplan
Look at my example, again, closely. I chose the blocksize as 16M and subblock size as 4K and the inodesize as 1K Developer works is a good resource, but articles you read there may be incomplete or contain mistakes. The official IBM Spectrum Scale cmd and admin guide documents, are

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] sublocks per block in GPFS 5.0

2018-03-30 Thread valleru
Thanks Mark, I did not know, we could explicitly mention sub-block size when creating File system. It is no-where mentioned in the “man mmcrfs”. Is this a new GPFS 5.0 feature? Also, i see from the “man mmcrfs” that the default sub-block size for 8M and 16M is 16K.

[gpfsug-discuss] sublocks per block in GPFS 5.0

2018-03-30 Thread valleru
Hello Everyone, I am a little bit confused with the number of sub-blocks per block-size of 16M in GPFS 5.0. In the below documentation, it mentions that the number of sub-blocks per block is 16K, but "only for Spectrum Scale RAID"