[gpfsug-discuss] mmlsquota output

[Peter Childs]

On Mon, 2019-03-25 at 09:52 +0000, Robert Horton wrote:
> I don't know the answer to your actual question, but have you thought
> about using the REST-API rather than parsing the command outputs? I
> can
> send over the Python stuff we're using if you mail me off list.

Thanks, We don't currently run the REST-API, partly I've never got
around to getting the monitoring overhead working, and working out
which extra packages we need to go round our 300 nodes and install. Out
cluster has been gradually upgraded over the years from 3.5 and we
don't routinely install all the new packages the GUI needs on every
node. It might be nice to see a list of which Spectrum Scale packages
are needed for the different added value features in Scale. 

I'm currently working on re-writing the cli quota reporting program
which was originally written in a combination of bash and awk. Its a
strict Linux Cli util for reporting quota's and hence I'd prefer to
avoid the overhead of using a Rest-API. 

With reference to the issue people reported not being able to run
"mmlsfileset" as a user a few weeks ago, I've found a handy work-around 
using "mmlsattr" instead, and yes it does use the -Y flag all the time.

I'd like to share the code, once its gone though some internal code
review......

With reference to the other post, I will I think raise a PMR for this
as it does not look like mmlsquota is working as documented.

Thanks

Peter Childs

> 
> Rob
> 
> On Mon, 2019-03-25 at 09:38 +0000, Peter Childs wrote:
> > Can someone tell me I'm not reading this wrong.
> > 
> > This is using Spectrum Scale 5.0.2-1
> > 
> > It looks like the output from mmlsquota is not what it says 
> > 
> > In the man page it says,
> > 
> > mmlsquota [-u User | -g Group] [-v | -q] [-e] [-C ClusterName]
> >           [-Y] [--block-size {BlockSize | auto}] [Device[:Fileset]
> > ...]
> > 
> > however
> > 
> > mmlsquota -u username fs:fileset
> > 
> > Return the output for every fileset, not just the "fileset" I've
> > asked
> > for, this is same output as 
> > 
> > mmlsquota -u username fs
> > 
> > Where I've not said the fileset.
> > 
> > I can work around this, but I'm just checking this is not actually
> > a
> > bug, that ought to be fixed.
> > 
> > Long story is that I'm working on rewriting our quota report util
> > that
> > used be a long bash/awk script into a more easy to understand
> > python
> > script, and I want to get the user quota info for just one
> > fileset. 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > 
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Peter Childs
ITS Research Storage
Queen Mary, University of London