[gpfsug-discuss] gpfs snapshots

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 00:30:19 +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek said:
> I guess we could reach snapid 100,000.

It probably stores the snap ID as a 32 or 64 bit int, so 100K is peanuts.

What you *do* want to do is make the snap *name* meaningful, using
a timestamp or something to keep your sanity.

mmcrsnapshot fs923 `date +%y%m%d-%H%M`   or similar.