[gpfsug-discuss] Get list of filesets_without_runningmmlsfileset?

[Buterbaugh, Kevin L]

Hi Marc (All),

Yes, I can easily determine where filesets are linked here … it is, as you said, in just one or two paths.  The script as it stands now has been doing that for several years and only needs a couple of relatively minor tweaks to be even more useful to _us_ by whittling down a couple of edge cases relating to fileset creation / deletion.

However … there was a request to share the script with the broader community … something I’m willing to do if I can get it in a state where it would be useful to others with little or no modification.  Anybody who’s been on this list for any length of time knows how much help I’ve received from the community over the years.  I truly appreciate that and would like to give back, even in a minor way, if possible.

But in order to do that the script can’t be full of local assumptions … that’s it in a nutshell … that’s why I want to programmatically determine the junction path at run time as a non-root user.

I’ll also mention here that early on in this thread Simon Thompson suggested looking into the REST API.  Sure enough, you can get the information that way … but, AFAICT, that would require the script to contain a username / password combination that would allow anyone with access to the script to then use that authentication information to access other information within GPFS that we probably don’t want them to have access to.  If I’m mistaken about that, then please feel free to enlighten me.

Thanks again…

Kevin

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On Jan 15, 2019, at 8:46 AM, Marc A Kaplan <makaplan at us.ibm.com<mailto:makaplan at us.ibm.com>> wrote:

Personally, I agree that there ought to be a way in the product.

In the meawhile, you no doubt already have some ways to tell your users where to find their filesets as pathnames.
Otherwise, how are they accessing their files?

And to keep things somewhat sane, I'd bet filesets are all linked to one or small number of well known paths in the filesystem.
Like  /AGpfsFilesystem/filesets/...  Plus you could add symlinks and/or as has been suggested post info extracted from mmlsfileset and/or mmlsquota.

So as a practical matter, is this an urgent problem...?  Why?  How?
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