<html><body><p><font size="2"><br>The simple answer is YES. I think the other replies are questioning whether you really want something different or more robust against failures. </font><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=0ABB0969DFCECCAB8f9e8a93df938690918c0AB@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for Aaron Turner ---05/14/2019 04:48:02 AM---Scenario: * one set of JBODS"><font size="2" color="#424282">Aaron Turner ---05/14/2019 04:48:02 AM---Scenario: * one set of JBODS</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">Aaron Turner <A.Turner@lboro.ac.uk></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">"gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">05/14/2019 04:48 AM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">[EXTERNAL] [gpfsug-discuss] Identifiable groups of disks?</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><font face="Calibri">Scenario:</font><br>
<ul><ul type="disc"><li><font face="Calibri">one set of JBODS</font><li><font face="Calibri">want to create two GPFS file systems</font><li><font face="Calibri">want to ensure that file system A uses physical disks a0, a1... an-1 and file system B uses physical disks b0, b1... bn-1</font><li><font face="Calibri">want to be able to assign specific sets of disks a0..an-1, b0..bn-1 on creation</font><li><font face="Calibri">Potentially allows all disks b0..bn-1 to be destroyed if required whilst not affecting a0..an-1</font></ul></ul><font face="Calibri">Is this possible in GPFS?</font><br><br><font face="Calibri">Regards</font><br><br><font face="Calibri">______________________________________ </font><br><i><font face="Palatino Linotype">Aaron Turner</font></i><font face="Calibri"> </font><br><i><font face="Palatino Linotype">Senior IT Services Specialist in High Performance Computing</font></i><br><i><font face="Palatino Linotype">Loughborough University</font></i><br><i><font face="Palatino Linotype">a.turner@lboro.ac.uk</font></i><br><i><font face="Palatino Linotype">01509 226185</font></i><br><font face="Calibri">______________________________________</font><br><br><tt><font size="2">_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br></font></tt><tt><font size="2"><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a></font></tt><tt><font size="2"><br></font></tt><br><br><BR>
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