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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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RHEL 9.X And GPFSGUI Daemon Fail bug?

line 67, checkPortIsAlreadyUsed in "/usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/bin-sudo/check4iptables" This function can act unintentionally when searching for 443 ports. "checkPortIsAlreadyUsed" can act unintentionally when searching for 443 ports on the 72nd line of "/...
about 6 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Restrict automatic node expels with deadlock amelioration with Nodeclass

We would like to possibly use automatic deadlock amelioration, but we need to ensure certain nodes are not expelled. We do not want to auto expel interactive/login nodes from the compute cluster. We already have a Nodeclass that contains these nod...
about 20 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Allow RDMA device recognition possible at mmfsd run time

Sometimes, when mmfsd starts up, not all RDMA devices are available (mostly due to temporarily down links). When such a link comes up later, mmfsd would not detect that and consequently ignore the port for the current run. Only when recycled, mmfs...
1 day ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

A command is needed to manually drop the FilesToCache and StatCache of the Client node mounted with GPFS to release the tokens of the server

same as the topic
2 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Get SOBAR supported for Spectrum Archive Disaster Recovery

We use SOBAR to backup metadata of all data that is going to Storage Archive. This is the only way to be able to recover data that was migrated toStorage Archive and recover this data when a disaster happens. In our use case we have an active arch...
18 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Allow mmrepquota -j to filter fileset(s)

The synopsis of mmrepquota looks like this: Synopsis mmrepquota [-u] [-g] [-e] [-n] [-v] [--block-size {BlockSize | auto} | -Y] {-a | Device:Fileset ...} or mmrepquota-j [-e] [-q] [-n] [-v] [-t] [--block-size {BlockSize | auto}] {-a | Device...} o...
10 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Enable AWS STS support

Currently generating a temporary token is associated to an object or file. In the case of many thousands of files we would prefer STS which would allow us to create temporary Sessions associated to a bucket that can be used to upload, via S3 many ...
14 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

gpfs enhance NFS performance in chip design domain

we expect GPFS to enhance NFS performance to accommodate small file scenarios in the chip design domain to beat netapp
9 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

fileset QoS distinguish read and write

we expect fileset QoS distinguish read and write to enhance the flexibility of QoS, also expect metadata support qos
9 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

gpfs support mount fileset or directory

I hope that GPFS (General Parallel File System) supports mounting filesets or directories. Since each fileset or directory is used by different individuals, if mounting of filesets and directories is supported, it would achieve the effect of data ...
17 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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