2012-06-02 | 0 comments
This step is unnecessary if when you created the filesystem you passed the -Q yes flag to the mmcrfs command. The default value in GPFS version 3.4.0-8 for -Q is no so you will not have active quota support unless … Continue reading
2012-04-05 | 0 comments
This was a little non intuitive to me so I’ll document the procedure. What confused me is that, unlike most UNIXish filesystem, GPFS stores the mount path as a parameter in the filesystem metadata. First use mmlsfs to find the … Continue reading
2012-03-30 | 2 Comments
IBM’s GPFS filesystem expects that all members of the GPFS cluster, be they clients or servers, have a complete and consistent state of the cluster. This causes some difficulty in re-adding a node to the cluster after it’s lost it’s … Continue reading