<span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">I think a better metaphor
is that the bridge we just crossed has collapsed and as long as we do not
need to cross it again our journey should reach its intended destination
:-) As I understand the intent of this message is to alert the user
(and our support teams) that the directory from which a command was executed
no longer exist. Should that be of consequence to the execution of
the command then failure is not unexpected, however, many commands do not
make use of the current directory so they likely will succeed. If
you consider the view point of a command failing because the working directory
was removed, but not knowing that was the root cause, I think you can see
why this message was added into the administration infrastructure. It
allows this odd failure scenario to be quickly recognized saving time for
both the user and IBM support, in tracking down the root cause.</span><br><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">Regards, The Spectrum
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for priority messages to the Spectrum Scale (GPFS) team.</span><br><br><br><br><span style=" font-size:9pt;color:#5f5f5f;font-family:sans-serif">From:
</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;font-family:sans-serif">"Billich
Heinrich Rainer (ID SD)" <heinrich.billich@id.ethz.ch></span><br><span style=" font-size:9pt;color:#5f5f5f;font-family:sans-serif">To:
</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;font-family:sans-serif">gpfsug
main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org></span><br><span style=" font-size:9pt;color:#5f5f5f;font-family:sans-serif">Date:
</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;font-family:sans-serif">09/07/2020
09:29 AM</span><br><span style=" font-size:9pt;color:#5f5f5f;font-family:sans-serif">Subject:
</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;font-family:sans-serif">[EXTERNAL]
[gpfsug-discuss] Best of spectrum scale</span><br><span style=" font-size:9pt;color:#5f5f5f;font-family:sans-serif">Sent
by: </span><span style=" font-size:9pt;font-family:sans-serif">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</span><br><hr noshade><br><br><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">Hi,</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">just
came across this:</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#2f2f2f;font-family:Courier New">/usr/lpp/mmfs/bin/mmafmctl
fs3101 getstate</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#2f2f2f;font-family:Courier New">mmafmctl:
Invalid current working directory detected: /tmp/A</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;color:#2f2f2f;font-family:Courier New">
The command may fail in an unexpected way. Processing continues ..</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">It’s
like a bus driver telling you that the brakes don’t work and next speeding
up even more. Honestly, why not just fail with a nice error messages ….
Don’t tell some customer asked for this to make the command more resilient
…</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">Cheers,</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">Heiner</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">--
</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:9pt;color:#104160;font-family:Arial">=======================</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:9pt;color:#104160;font-family:Arial">Heinrich
Billich</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:9pt;color:#104160;font-family:Arial">ETH
Zürich</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:9pt;color:#104160;font-family:Arial">Informatikdienste</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:9pt;color:#104160;font-family:Arial">Tel.:
+41 44 632 72 56</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:9pt;color:#104160;font-family:Arial">heinrich.billich@id.ethz.ch</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:9pt;color:#104160;font-family:Arial">========================</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif"> </span><tt><span style=" font-size:10pt">_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br></span></tt><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss"><tt><span style=" font-size:10pt">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</span></tt></a><tt><span style=" font-size:10pt"><br></span></tt></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-Bottom:0px"></p><BR>