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<p><span>thanks a lot for your comments. Agreed, I better avoid it for now. I was concerned about how GPFS would behave in such case. For production I will take the safe route, but,
<span>just out of curiosity, I'll give it a try on a couple of test filesystems.</span></span><br>
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<p>Thanks a lot for your help, it was very helpful,</p>
<p>Marc <br>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org <gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org> on behalf of Skylar Thompson <skylar2@uw.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 19, 2020 6:38:07 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Mounting filesystem on top of an existing filesystem</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Agreed, not sure how the GPFS tools would react. An alternative to symlinks<br>
would be bind mounts, if for some reason a tool doesn't behave properly<br>
with a symlink in the path.<br>
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 06:34:05PM +0100, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:<br>
> I would not mount a GPFS filesystem within a GPFS filesystem. Technically<br>
> it should work, but I???d expect it to cause surprises if ever the lower<br>
> filesystem experienced problems. Alone, a filesystem might recover<br>
> automatically by remounting. But if there???s another filesystem mounted<br>
> within, I expect it will be a problem..<br>
> <br>
> Much better to use symlinks.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> -jf<br>
> <br>
> tor. 19. nov. 2020 kl. 18:01 skrev Caubet Serrabou Marc (PSI) <<br>
> marc.caubet@psi.ch>:<br>
> <br>
> > Hi Simon,<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > that's a very good point, thanks a lot :) I have it remotely mounted on a<br>
> > client cluster, so I will consider priorities when mounting the filesystems<br>
> > with remote cluster mount. That's very useful.<br>
> ><br>
> > Also, as far as I saw, same approach can be also applied to local mounts<br>
> > (via mmchfs) during daemon startup with the same option --mount-priority.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks a lot for the hints, these are very useful. I'll test that.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Cheers,<br>
> ><br>
> > Marc<br>
> > _________________________________________________________<br>
> > Paul Scherrer Institut<br>
> > High Performance Computing & Emerging Technologies<br>
> > Marc Caubet Serrabou<br>
> > Building/Room: OHSA/014<br>
> > Forschungsstrasse, 111<br>
> > 5232 Villigen PSI<br>
> > Switzerland<br>
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> > *From:* gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org <<br>
> > gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org> on behalf of Simon Thompson <<br>
> > S.J.Thompson@bham.ac.uk><br>
> > *Sent:* Thursday, November 19, 2020 5:42:07 PM<br>
> > *To:* gpfsug main discussion list<br>
> > *Subject:* Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Mounting filesystem on top of an existing<br>
> > filesystem<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > If it is a remote cluster mount from your clients (hopefully!), you might<br>
> > want to look at priority to order mounting of the file-systems. I don???t<br>
> > know what would happen if the overmounted file-system went away, you would<br>
> > likely want to test.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Simon<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > *From: *<gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org> on behalf of "<br>
> > marc.caubet@psi.ch" <marc.caubet@psi.ch><br>
> > *Reply to: *"gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" <<br>
> > gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br>
> > *Date: *Thursday, 19 November 2020 at 15:39<br>
> > *To: *"gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org<br>
> > ><br>
> > *Subject: *[gpfsug-discuss] Mounting filesystem on top of an existing<br>
> > filesystem<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Hi,<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > I have a filesystem holding many projects (i.e., mounted under /projects),<br>
> > each project is managed with filesets.<br>
> ><br>
> > I have a new big project which should be placed on a separate filesystem<br>
> > (blocksize, replication policy, etc. will be different, and subprojects of<br>
> > it will be managed with filesets). Ideally, this filesystem should be<br>
> > mounted in /projects/newproject.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Technically, mounting a filesystem on top of an existing filesystem should<br>
> > be possible, but, is this discouraged for any reason? How GPFS would behave<br>
> > with that and is there a technical reason for avoiding this setup?<br>
> ><br>
> > Another alternative would be independent mount point + symlink, but I<br>
> > really would prefer to avoid symlinks.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks a lot,<br>
> ><br>
> > Marc<br>
> ><br>
> > _________________________________________________________<br>
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> > High Performance Computing & Emerging Technologies<br>
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> ><br>
> > Forschungsstrasse, 111<br>
> ><br>
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