<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I believe that -1 is "special", in that all -1’s are different form each other. So you will wind up with data on several -1 NSDs, instead of a -1 and a 2.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In fact you probably didn’t specify -1, it was likely assigned automatically.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Read the first paragraph in the failureGroup entry in:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_5.0.2/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r02.doc/bl1adm_mmcrnsd.htm" class="">https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_5.0.2/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r02.doc/bl1adm_mmcrnsd.htm</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I do realize that the subsequent paragraphs do confuse the issue somewhat, but the first paragraph describes what’s happening.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Liberty,</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 16, 2019, at 8:38 AM, Prasad Surampudi <<a href="mailto:prasad.surampudi@theatsgroup.com" class="">prasad.surampudi@theatsgroup.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">We have a filesystem with 'system' and 'v7kdata' pools. All the NSDs in v7kdata are with failure group '-1'. Filesystem metadata is already replicated. Now we are planning to replicate the filesystem data. 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