[gpfsug-discuss] Question about Policies

[Marc A Kaplan]

Now apart from the mechanics of handling and manipulating pathnames ...

the idea to manage storage by "mv"ing instead of MIGRATEing (GPFS-wise) may
be ill-advised.

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..

That is not the GPFS-way (Spectrum-Scale-way).... Well at least not for
more than a dozen or more years!

Modern Spectrum Scale has storage POOLs and also integrates with HSM
systems.
These separate the concept of name space (pathnames) from storage devices.

Read about it, discuss it with your colleagues, clients, managers -- and
use it!

-- marc of GPFS.
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