<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div>after discussion with Marc A Kaplan from IBM I finished with this solution. So I am sharing it with all other user just in case you need it in future.</div><div><br></div><div>Example placement policy file:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">/* --- Enable .avi so it will not be denied by default --- */</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">RULE 'enable_avi' SET POOL 'data' FOR FILESET (nfsexport) WHERE RegEx(lower(name),['\.avi$'])</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">/* --- Deny all following extensions --- */</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">RULE 'deny_files' SET POOL 'system' FOR FILESET (nfsexport) WHERE RegEx(lower(name),['\.avi$|\.mp[ae1234]$|\.mpe?g[23]?$|\.eml$|\.idx$|\.mbo?x$|\.msg$|\.ost$|\.otf$|\.pab$|\.pst$|\.aac$|\.aif*$|\.as[fx]$|\.au$|\.flac$|\.m3u$|\.midi?$|\.mov$|\.ogg$|\.qtw?$|\.ram$|\.rmi?$|\.rmvb$|\.snd$|\.swf$|\.vob$|\.wa[vx]$|\.wm[av]$|\.wvx$|\.bmp$|\.dib$|\.eps$|\.gif$|\.img$|\.jfif$|\.jpe?g?$|\.pcx$|\.png$|\.psd?$|\.raw$|\.if$|\.spiff$|\.tif*$'])</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">/* --- Enable every other file extensions --- */</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">RULE 'DEFAULT' SET POOL 'data'</font></div>
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Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 14:21:58 +0100<br>
From: Jonathan Buzzard <<a href="mailto:jonathan@buzzard.me.uk">jonathan@buzzard.me.uk</a>><br>
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Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS Placement rules - group file<br>
extension?<br>
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On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 17:15 +0800, Pavel Pokorny wrote:<br>
> Hello,<br>
> our customer would like to deny some of the file extensions<br>
> (.mp3, .avi, ...) to be stored on GPFS FS. Is there any way to deny<br>
> some of the extensions?<br>
> Right now we only find the solution to make a placement rule that<br>
> directs the files to metadataonly storage pool.<br>
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Create a really small storage pool and fill it in advance.<br>
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> This leads me to second question. Is there any easy way to make a<br>
> group of extension (some type of templates) for placement rules?<br>
> Because there is a lot of extensions, customer would like to deny, and<br>
> the placement rules files start to grow :-(.<br>
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Note if you deny extensions out right you are more likely to force users<br>
to come up with work arounds. The simple expediency of changing the file<br>
extension for example will lead you to a game of whack-a-mole.<br>
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Better to given them really rubbish performance and don't talk about it.<br>
The chances are this is less of a business cost than dealing with the<br>
outright banning, especially when there turns out to be some legitimate<br>
business reason for having multimedia stuff, if even only occasionally.<br>
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So a RAID1 of a couple of large nearline SAS disks for all MP3 etc.<br>
files. Performance will suck, but the users probably won't realize what<br>
is going on, and are unlikely to come to support asking why their itunes<br>
collection is really slow. That said if you are doing ILM with a<br>
nearline pool holding most of the storage, it is likely to be near idle<br>
most of the time so just force all multimedia stuff to your nearline<br>
pool is adequate.<br>
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JAB.<br>
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