<font size=2 face="Palatino-Bold"><i>(Doc?... I ain't about to read a
manual! But just to cover our bases we did stick it into the 4.1.1
pubs)</i></font><br><br><font size=2 face="Palatino-Bold"><b>Policy improvements:</b></font><br><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">This release includes the following
policy improvements:</font><br><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman"> ... (summary of changes,
page xv) ...</font><br><br><font size=2 face="Palatino-Bold"><b>Implicit SET POOL </b></font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Italic"><i>'first-data-pool'
</i></font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Bold"><b>rule</b></font><br><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">For file systems that are at or
have been upgraded to 4.1.1, the system recognizes that,</font><br><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">even if no policy rules have been
installed to a file system by </font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Bold"><b>mmchpolicy</b></font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">,
data files</font><br><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">should be stored in a non-system
pool if available (rather than in the system pool, which</font><br><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">is the default for earlier releases).
For more information, see the following:</font><br><font size=2 face="XyvisionPiOne"> </font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">Information
Lifecycle Management chapter in the </font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Italic"><i>IBM
Spectrum Scale: Advanced Administration Guide</i></font><br><br><font size=2 face="Palatino-Bold"> ... ( mmchpolicy man page 298)
...</font><br><font size=2 face="Palatino-Bold"><b>For file systems that are at or
have been upgraded to 4.1.1 or later: </b></font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">If
there are no </font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Bold"><b>SET POOL </b></font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">policy</font><br><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">rules installed to a file system
by </font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Bold"><b>mmchpolicy</b></font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">,
the system acts as if the single rule </font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Bold"><b>SET
POOL</b></font><br><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">'</font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Italic"><i>first-data-pool</i></font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">'
is in effect, where </font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Italic"><i>first-data-pool
</i></font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">is the firstmost non-system
pool that is available for file</font><br><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">data storage, if such a non-system
pool is available. (“Firstmost” is the first according to an internal
index</font><br><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">of all pools.) However, if there
are no policy rules installed and there is no non-system pool, the system</font><br><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">acts as if </font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Bold"><b>SET
POOL 'system' </b></font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">is in effect.</font><br><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">This change applies only to file
systems that were created at or upgraded to 4.1.1. Until a file system
is</font><br><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">upgraded, if no </font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Bold"><b>SET
POOL </b></font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">rules are present (set
by </font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Bold"><b>mmchpolicy</b></font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">)
for the file system, all data will be</font><br><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">stored in the </font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Bold"><b>'system'
</b></font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">pool.</font><br><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">For information on GPFS policies,
see the </font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Italic"><i>IBM Spectrum Scale:
Advanced Administration Guide</i></font><font size=2 face="Palatino-Roman">.</font><br><br><BR>