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Status Under review
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 21, 2025

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extend mmapplypolicy --scope

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I have a filesystem with >1300 independent filesets and ~540 million files. Running mapplypolicy with --scope filesystem takes a long time because all inodes need to be scanned.

For some mmapplypolicy runs I only need to process one fileset so I can switch to --scope fileset which makes the scan much quicker.

But if I need to apply a policy to two or more filesets at once (using -i <inputfile>) I need to switch back to --filesystem.

So my suggestions is to extend --scope with an "auto" or "smart" mode that limits the run to the filesets (or inodespaces) that are connected to the entries in the inputfile instead of scanning the whole filesystem. 

In addition, if all policy rules are limiting the selection with FOR FILESET(fileset1, fileset2, fileset3) mmapplypolicy's scan could be reduced to the given filesets.

Both these changes would significantly improve the runtime of policy runs.

Idea priority Medium

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