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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#222222">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#222222">We are looking forward to using the manila driver for auto-provisioning of file shares using GPFS.
However, I have some concerns...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#222222">Manila presumably gives tenant users access to file system commands like mmlinkfileset and mmunlinkfileset. Given that mmunlinkfileset quiesces the file system, there is potentially
an impact from one tenant on another - i.e. someone unlinking and deleting a lot of filesets during a tenancy cleanup might cause a cluster pause long enough to trigger other failure events or even start evicting nodes. You can see why this would be bad in
a cloud environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#222222">Has this scenario been addressed at all?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#222222">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#222222">Luke.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Luke Raimbach</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">\u200b</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#212121;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Senior HPC Data and Storage Systems Engineer</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#212121;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The Francis Crick Institute</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#212121;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">E: </span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#212121;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="mailto:luke.raimbach@crick.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;font-weight:normal">luke.raimbach@crick.ac.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">W: </span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#212121;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.crick.ac.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;font-weight:normal">www.crick.ac.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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