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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">IMO I’d want to see an explanation of what will happen in plain English. “This will create a policy that moves any file bigger than
10MB and older than 30 days to storage pool XYZ”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">You might be able to tell I’ve never used GPFS policies except for initial placement so the above example might not be possible anyway
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I’m very used to the Powershell switch “-whatif” which basically said “I am going to do the following:”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org
[mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jez Tucker<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 09 June 2016 16:21<br>
<b>To:</b> gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@gpfsug.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [gpfsug-discuss] Dry-Run functionality<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello all,<br>
<br>
I wonder if you could have your take on your ideal dry-run functionality.<br>
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Post London User Group, we had much feedback regarding the need for dry-run functionality.<br>
Therefore we have implemented dry-run functionality for our GPFS/Scale Python API across all calls.<br>
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API calls for Policies have the ability to run in 'test' or 'run' mode. (ref: man mmapplypolicy)<br>
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How would you expect to use dry-run functionality on a policy?<br>
We have our own opinion, but we'd like to hear yours.<br>
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1) Validate the policy and print the policy content to stdout/other. No mmapplypolicy is performed.<br>
2) Validate the policy and enforce mmapplypolicy with -I test<br>
3) Return what would be called. E.G. mmapplypolicy -P mypol.pol --flag1 --flag2 --etc<br>
4) Other<br>
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Best regards,<br>
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Jez<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Jez Tucker<br>
Head of Research & Development<br>
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