[gpfsug-discuss] snapshots & tiering in a busy filesystem

[Bryan Banister]

We run snapshots every 4 hours on a busy home file system without issues for many years now,
-Bryan

From: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org [mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org] On Behalf Of J. Eric Wonderley
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Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] snapshots & tiering in a busy filesystem

I found this link and it didn't give me much hope for doing snapshots & backup in a home(busy) filesystem:
http://www.spectrumscale.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss/2013-February/000200.html
I realize this is dated and I wondered if qos etc have made is a tolerable thing to do now.  Gpfs I think was barely above v3.5 in mid 2013.

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