What data do I want to migrate?

This topic provides considerations for determining the data that should be migrated to the SAN File System.

All data that you want to access through SAN File System must be migrated to the SAN File System global namespace. SAN File System supports the following types of file-system objects:

All other objects in the existing file system are ignored.

If there are multiple hard links to a source file, SAN File System will attempt to preserve all the links; however, the SAN File System does not support hard links across filesets. If these hard links need to traverse across filesets, the hard link will be replaced with a symbolic link, and SAN File System will generate a warning.

If you migrate files with POSIX access control lists (ACLs), such as journaled file system (JFS), you will lose the ACLs from those files.

Parent topic: Planning the data migration strategy

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