<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Suppose, we could "dynamically"
change the pool assignment of a file.</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">How/when would you have us do that?
When will that generate unnecessary, "wasteful" IOPs?</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">How do we know if/when/how often you
will access a file in the future?</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">This is similar to other classical caching
policies, but there the choice is usually just which pages to flush from
the cache</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">when we need space ... The usual
compromise is "LRU" but maybe some systems allow hints.</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">When there are multiple pools, it seems
more complicated, more degrees of freedom ... </font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Would you be willing and able to write
some new policy rules to provide directions to Spectrum Scale for dynamic
tiering?</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">What would that look like? Would
it be worth the time and effort over what we have now?</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br></font><br><BR>