Thanks for response. I am not a system engineer / storage architect. I maintain kernel module that interact with file system drivers.. so I need to configure gpfs and perform tests.. for example I noticed that gpfs set extended attribute does not go via VFS On Aug 7, 2017 19:48, "Marc A Kaplan" <makaplan at us.ibm.com> wrote: > Indeed. You can consider and use GPFS/Spectrum Scale as "just another" > file system type that can be loaded into/onto a Linux system. > > But you should consider the pluses and minuses of using other software > subsystems that may or may not be designed to work better or inter-operate > with Spectrum Scale specific features and APIs. > > > > _______________________________________________ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20170807/0635e5f8/attachment.html>