Yes. QOS (see mmchqos) is now the way (4.2.x) to control maintenance commands like snapshots, backup, restripe. From: "J. Eric Wonderley" <eric.wonderley at vt.edu> To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org> Date: 03/20/2017 10:03 AM Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] snapshots & tiering in a busy filesystem Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org 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. _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20170320/29e56d25/attachment.html>