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I have a customer with GPFS 3.4.0.11 on Windows @VMware with VMware Raw Device Mapping. They just ran in to an issue with adding some nsd disks.</div>
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They claim that their current file system’s nsddisks are specified with 4001 as the failure group. This is out of bounds, since the allowed range is –1>–—>4000.</div>
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So, when they now try to add some new disks with mmcrnsd, with 4001 specified, they get an error message.</div>
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<span lang="SV">Customer runs this command: mmcrnsd -F D:\slask\gpfs\gpfsdisk.txt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="SV">His gpfsdisk.txt file looks like this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="SV">A listing of current disks show all as belonging to Failure group 4001<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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So, Why can’t he choose f<span style="font-size: 11pt;">ailure group 4001 when the existing disks are member of that group ?</span></p>
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the pros and cons with that ? I guess issues with replication not working as expected…. </font></p>
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