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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Detailed information about a problematic inode

“When we encounter an issue caused by or impacting a specific file which leads to deadlock conditions in the file locking functionality that scale supports the Scale development is able to provide us with an inode value after analysis of gpfs.snap...
about 12 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

use sort from rust-coreutils to speedup mmbackup/mmapplypolicy

For large filesystems mmbackup and mmapplypolicy spend long times with sorting data. This idea is about improving those times considerably. https://github.com/uutils/coreutils is a re-implementation of the GNU coreutils. The sort command is much q...
about 5 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Prevent attribute changes by non-root users

We are running a big filesystem that controls file access by (nfsv3) ACLs. The ACLs are carefully crafted to ensure the desired file accesses for the data. As ACLs are not directly visible via ls (there's only the tiny + character) users tend to m...
about 5 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

expand the number of hosts that a nodeclass can have

Clients want to add more than 1k hosts to a nodeclass.
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 ...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Needs more information

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 ...
about 1 month 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...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

killing running mmbackup processes on all participating nsd server

In some circumstances (maintenance window / problem investigation) it is important for us to kill all mmbackup sessions on a scale cluster. We, as the storage and backup admingroup in our company struggeling currently in missing a feature that mmb...
29 days 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...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Future consideration

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