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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

为了提高产品的RAS（Reliability, Availability, Serviceability）客户建议做必要的重试： OS bootup ➔ GPFS daemon starts ➔ Join local cluster ➔ Mount remote file system ➔ Join remote cluster ➔ Join remote cluster failed (due to unexpected exception) ➔ Mount remote file system failed ➔ Wait/sleep xxx seconds ➔ Attempt to re-mount remote file system (automated retry loop)

为了提高产品的RAS（Reliability, Availability, Serviceability）客户建议做必要的重试： OS bootup ➔ GPFS daemon starts ➔ Join local cluster ➔ Mount remote file system ➔ Join remote cluster ➔ Join remote cluster failed (due to unexpected exception) ➔ Mount remote file sy...
about 21 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Support tiered S3 instant retrieval buckets as home filesystem with AFM to reduce AWS bill by 68%

Today scale supports S3 standard and S3 Glacier as AFM home filesystems. However to optimize expense we need to support tiered S3 buckets for best value. With more customer relying on cloud and amazon S3, we want to provide better value for money ...
5 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Observe Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard for Zimon

The Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), cf. https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.pdf, foresees /var for data writes and /opt for installed software (quasi write once read many, WORM). That is usually what system admins desig...
12 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Support CES-S3 accounts without access to creating new buckets

We want to give access to existing datasets through S3 and NFS, and want a mapping of one NFS share for each S3 bucket. Some S3 accounts should only have readonly access to buckets (through bucket policy), and we don't want them to be able to crea...
14 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

per-file-system backgrondSpaceReclaimThreshold configuration parameters

As commented in https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/GPFS-I-1306, the backgroundSpaceReclaim logic included in the recent Spectrum Scale version enables to trigger trim / unmap operations to NVME backend NSD disks while files / blocks are removed / freed o...
14 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

The GUI needs to support over 1000 nodes in a single cluster

The GUI needs to support over 1000 nodes in a single cluster; for example, our project already has a requirement to support around 3000 nodes.There is a limitation in GUI: for a single K8s cluster, it cannot be split into multiple GPFS client clus...
18 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Add supported S3 server access/request logging to IBM Storage Scale S3 (MMS3)

IBM Storage Scale S3 should provide a fully supported production mechanism for S3 server access/request logging. Storage administrators need request-level visibility comparable to traditional HTTP/S3 gateway access logs without enabling global Noo...
27 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Add Samba CES support for delete veto files

This issue was reported by users of IBM Global Storage Architecture (GSA / GSA2). On a Windows system with a samba mapped drive when deleting a directory that contains a symlink that was created on a unix system; Windows is removing the linked fil...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Implement RWF_SYNC/RWF_DSYNC flag support in SCALE's pwritev2 syscall handler.

Recommendation for implementation (IBM should implement): 1. Add IOCB_SYNC/IOCB_DSYNC Handling in gpfs_f_write_iter() int gpfs_f_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter) { ssize_t ret; // Current code: just writes, ignores flags ret =...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Add Quiet mode in mmdsh to suppress ssh banner message

when using mmdsh and running cluster level cmds, ssh banner messages are interfering in the outputs which is making mmdsh outputs difficult to read. need a ssh -q equalent in mmdsh to supress these banner messages which are sometime as big as half...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

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