You can also set mount priority on filesystems so that gpfs can try to mount them in order...parent first
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 21:19 Jonathan Buzzard <jonathan.buzz...@strath.ac.uk> wrote: > On 19/11/2020 15:34, Caubet Serrabou Marc (PSI) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a filesystem holding many projects (i.e., mounted under > > /projects), each project is managed with filesets. > > > > I have a new big project which should be placed on a separate filesystem > > (blocksize, replication policy, etc. will be different, and subprojects > > of it will be managed with filesets). Ideally, this filesystem should be > > mounted in /projects/newproject. > > > > > > Technically, mounting a filesystem on top of an existing filesystem > > should be possible, but, is this discouraged for any reason? How GPFS > > would behave with that and is there a technical reason for avoiding this > > setup? > > > > Another alternative would be independent mount point + symlink, but I > > really would prefer to avoid symlinks. > > This has all the hallmarks of either a Windows admin or a newbie > Linux/Unix admin :-) > > Simply put /projects is mounted on top of whatever file system is > providing the root file system in the first place LOL. > > Linux/Unix and/or GPFS does not give a monkeys about mounting another > file system *ANYWHERE* in it period because there is no other way of > doing it. > > JAB. > > -- > Jonathan A. Buzzard Tel: +44141-5483420 > HPC System Administrator, ARCHIE-WeSt. > University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Building, Glasgow. G4 0NG > _______________________________________________ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss >
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