<html><head><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="">Is this still true if the source and target fileset are both in the same storage pool? It seems like they could just move the metadata… Especially in the case of dependent filesets where the metadata is actually in the same allocation area for both the source and target.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Maybe this just doesn’t happen often enough to optimize?</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 16, 2020, at 12:50 PM, Oesterlin, Robert <<a href="mailto:Robert.Oesterlin@nuance.com" class="">Robert.Oesterlin@nuance.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Moving data between filesets is like moving files between file systems. Normally when you move files between directories, it’s simple metadata, but with filesets (dependent or independent) is a full copy and delete of the old data.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Bob Oesterlin<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Sr Principal Storage Engineer, Nuance<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org" class="">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</a>> on behalf of "J. Eric Wonderley" <<a href="mailto:eric.wonderley@vt.edu" class="">eric.wonderley@vt.edu</a>><br class=""><b class="">Reply-To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>gpfsug main discussion list <<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" class="">gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 11:32 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>gpfsug main discussion list <<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" class="">gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>[EXTERNAL] [gpfsug-discuss] gpfs filesets question<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I have filesets setup in a filesystem...looks like:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">[root@cl005 ~]# mmlsfileset home -L<br class="">Filesets in file system 'home':<br class="">Name Id RootInode ParentId Created InodeSpace MaxInodes AllocInodes Comment<br class="">root 0 3 -- Tue Jun 30 07:54:09 2015 0 402653184 320946176 root fileset<br class="">hess 1 543733376 0 Tue Jun 13 14:56:13 2017 0 0 0<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">predictHPC 2 1171116 0 Thu Jan 5 15:16:56 2017 0 0 0<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">HYCCSIM 3 544258049 0 Wed Jun 14 10:00:41 2017 0 0 0<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">socialdet 4 544258050 0 Wed Jun 14 10:01:02 2017 0 0 0<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">arc 5 1171073 0 Thu Jan 5 15:07:09 2017 0 0 0<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">arcadm 6 1171074 0 Thu Jan 5 15:07:10 2017 0 0 0 <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I beleive these are dependent filesets. Dependent on the root fileset. Anyhow a user wants to move a large amount of data from one fileset to another. Would this be a metadata only operation? He has attempted to small amount of data and has noticed some thrasing.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">gpfsug-discuss mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">gpfsug-discuss at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://spectrumscale.org/" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">spectrumscale.org</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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;" class=""><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>