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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Improve fragment allocation when very large number of NSDs and allocation regions.

    Current fragment allocation behavior for small files or shrink-to-fit operation looks only on the region's local list. If nothing fits it allocates a full block for the small file. This causes a problem when billions of small files are created in ...
    4 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Real time ransomware detection for IBM Storage Scale file systems and filesets

    IBM Storage Scale environment we need the capability for real-time ransomware detection. We use immutable snapshots for file systems and fileset already. Real-time ransomware detection gives us the ability to determine the last good immutable snap...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Change GPFS to use IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT bind() option

    Change GPFS to use IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT bind() option so so that binds() on sockets meant to be used for a subsequent connect() do not require that there's a totally unused port in the ephemeral port range for the source IP. We got an assert on...
    5 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    cesSharedRoot and cnfsSharedRoot effeciency improvements

    The cesSharedRoot and cnfsSharedRoot requirements made economic sense in the past, before mmvdisk began enforcing a minimum of 4 vdisks per Data Adapter (DA) on SSD-based Recovery Groups (RGs). Currently, in a single ESS Building Block, depending ...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Needs more information

    Ability to grant access on a virtual path level within a bucket

    A topic we discussed with the client was the ability to grant access on a virtual path level within a bucket. This can be achieved with bucket policies. However, in Scale S3 we do not support the Condition clause of a bucket policy. The condition ...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Assigning less CES IPs than CES Nodes to a cluster should not throw a warning

    Hi! If you have multiple CES Nodes in a cluster but only one (or less CES IPs than CES Nodes) every CES Node, which does not have a IP assigned will throw the warning "ces_network_ips_down". This is very misleading, because the IPs aren't down on ...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    mmputacl recursive option enhancement request

    Do you have any suggestions how we can do a recursive ACL change efficiently using mmputacl? For directory trees that include millions of files, running mmputacl on each file or directory using a file list generated by, let's say, the find command...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Future consideration

    Allow hide TIP events only for specific nodes instead of all entities

    TIP events are very useful to give an advice for some parameters to have configuration best practices and to achieve best performance on Scale Clusters. For example : hc_alert_scalehc_00006 = NumaInterleave is not enabled on a multi-CPU system hc_...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    mmdsh rest api command

    With the transition from ssh-based commanding to the Rest API, the functionality of mmdsh needs to be maintained. Currently, this command's functionality will no longer be supported once a cluster is migrated off of ssh-based communications. Many ...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Enable inline compression of files at ingestion for IBM Storage Scale

    Our client needs to have the option to compress some well-known files inline, at ingestion -first write- time. Their goal is to enable this compression on the gpfs clients. They use remote-mounts to connect to their gpfs filesystems (having ESS as...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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