<div dir="ltr">Just found the Spectrum Scale policy &quot;best practices&quot; presentation from the latest UG:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://files.gpfsug.org/presentations/2018/USA/SpectrumScalePolicyBP.pdf">http://files.gpfsug.org/presentations/2018/USA/SpectrumScalePolicyBP.pdf</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>which mentions:</div><div><br></div><div>&quot;mmapplypolicy \u2026 --choice-algorithm fast &amp;&amp; ... WEIGHT(0) \u2026
 (avoids final sort of all selected files by weight)&quot;</div><div><br></div><div>and looking at the man-page I see that &quot;fast&quot; &quot;Works together with the parallelized \u2010g /shared\u2010tmp \u2010N node\u2010list selection method.&quot;</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">I do a daily listing of all files, and avoiding unneccessary sorting would be great.  So, what is really needed to avoid sorting for a file-list policy?</span></div><div><br></div><div>Just &quot;--choice-algorithm fast&quot;? Also WEIGHT(0) in policy required? Also a <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">\u2010g /shared\u2010tmp<span> ?</span></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>  -jf</div><div><br></div></div>