<html><body><p><font size="2">Now apart from the mechanics of handling and manipulating pathnames ... </font><br><br><font size="2">the idea to manage storage by "mv"ing instead of MIGRATEing (GPFS-wise) may be ill-advised.</font><br><br><font size="2">I suspect this is a hold-over or leftover from the old days -- when a filesystem was comprised of just a few storage devices (disk drives) and the only way available to manage space was to mv files to another filesystem or archive to tape or whatnot..</font><br><font size="2"><br>That is not the GPFS-way (Spectrum-Scale-way).... Well at least not for more than a dozen or more years! </font><br><font size="2"><br>Modern Spectrum Scale has storage POOLs and also integrates with HSM systems. </font><br><font size="2">These separate the concept of name space (pathnames) from storage devices.</font><br><br><font size="2">Read about it, discuss it with your colleagues, clients, managers -- and use it!</font><br><br><font size="2">-- marc of GPFS.</font><BR>
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