As I said :"MAY be ill-advised". If you have a good reason to use "mv" then certainly, use it! But there are plenty of good naming conventions for the scenario you give... Like, start a new directory of results every day, week or month... /fs/experiments/y2019/m12/d30/fileX.ZZZ ... OF course, if you want or need to mv, or cp and/or rm the metadata out of the filesystem, then eventually you do so! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20191230/e985f5d6/attachment.html>