<html><body><p>This is technically impossible. A clone relationship is semantically similar to a hard link. The basic fileset concept precludes hard links between filesets. A fileset is by definition a self-contained subtree in the namespace.<br><br>yuri<br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=07BBF5F8DFF07EE68f9e8a93df938690918c07B@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for Luke Raimbach ---03/03/2016 01:07:45 AM---Hi All, When I use "mmclone copy" to try and create a clone"><font color="#424282">Luke Raimbach ---03/03/2016 01:07:45 AM---Hi All, When I use "mmclone copy" to try and create a clone and the destination is inside a fileset</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">Luke Raimbach <Luke.Raimbach@crick.ac.uk></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@gpfsug.org>, </font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">03/03/2016 01:07 AM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">[gpfsug-discuss] Cloning across fileset boundaries</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Sent by: </font><font size="2">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><br><tt>Hi All,<br><br>When I use "mmclone copy" to try and create a clone and the destination is inside a fileset (dependent or independent), I get this:<br><br>mmclone: Invalid cross-device link<br><br>I can find no information in any manuals as to why this doesn't work (though I can imagine what the reasons might be). Could somebody explain whether this could be permitted in the future, or if it's technically impossible?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Luke.<br><br>Luke Raimbach​<br>Senior HPC Data and Storage Systems Engineer,<br>The Francis Crick Institute,<br>Gibbs Building,<br>215 Euston Road,<br>London NW1 2BE.<br><br>E: luke.raimbach@crick.ac.uk<br>W: </tt><tt>www.crick.ac.uk</tt><tt><br><br>The Francis Crick Institute Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales no. 1140062 and a company registered in England and Wales no. 06885462, with its registered office at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE.<br>_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br></tt><tt><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a></tt><tt><br></tt><br><BR>
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