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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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GPFS 5.1.9.7 supports ubuntu22.04.1 (kernel: 5.15.0.136)

Several customers are experiencing OS panics using Ubuntu (5.15.0-72-generic). The GPFS version is 5.1.9.7 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-5.15.y&id=a5ee9fe48fa51a79620b041b27a94a05e7ac75a0 root...
8 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

Support both Ubuntu and Redhat upgrades through open source ansible scale roles with same repository

Support both Local existing APT repository to support storage scale deployment on UBUNTU through open source ansible scale roles, also support Redhat /Sles Yum repository to support storage scale deployment..
10 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

NFS Ganesha to identify client Stale I/O errors

Following case - TS018623841.Client NFS when working with several NFS clients - each mounting different CES NFS node , loading python modules - get Stale I/O in random steps. 1. Same python is used through the same script.2. We use autofs to mount...
10 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CES S3 - S3 Glacier for Storage Protect managed tape libraries

It seems the feature has been implemented in NooBaa, but Storage Scale still does not officially support the S3 Glacier feature. Without S3 Glacier support, S3 users have no idea that their data has been migrated. This creates challenges for syste...
12 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Future consideration

Support for "directory swapping" (RENAME_EXCHANGE) on Linux

I propose adding support for the RENAME_EXCHANGE flag for directory renames in Storage Scale, to enable atomic directory swaps. Linux around kernel v3.15 added the renameat2 syscall which supports the RENAME_EXCHANGE flag to atomically swap two di...
18 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

CHTASK to change task period at Scale GUI is not persistent

CHTASK to change task period at Scale GUI is not persistent. In order to improve their monitoring integration with Grafana, client needs to shorten the frequency of some GUI tasks . I used the /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/chtask <task> --period <...
20 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

mmbackup: Backup extended acls separately to eliminate "updated" backup

mmbackup should generate a database of file/dir extended acls and back up such database so that TSM can be run with the SKIPACL option enabled. When the only change to a file is its extended acl or permissions, it is a waste of resources having to...
26 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Enhance gpl-build logic to check the right packages before the build-run

This request is an important feature to close the gap to generate more stability in building gpl module on supported plattform. Today there are no check if the mmbuildgpl cmd are run that the installed packages are on the right version. Currently ...
28 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

CES S3 - subnet restrictions in S3 bucket policies

One of our ESS clusters stores highly sensitive data for around two thousand projects that needs to be kept strictly separate between projects, so we neeed the possibility to add subnet-requirements to buckets for proper data separation, like we c...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Needs more information

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