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    GUI should be quick to load overview pages, and defer the output of slow commands

    F.ex. on the GUI "pools" page, we're experiencing several minute loading time on large systems. It should not be acceptable that it takes this long to load any of the pages, particularly not the initial overview pages. Rather the GUI should only s...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Improve DIO on sparse files to avoid E-HOLE error

    The customer is using Db2 pureScale and allocates tablespace using preallocation.But there are enormous performance issue was caused by the DIO thrashing ( frequent switching back and forth between DIO and Buffered IO ) due to E_HOLE errors.We ana...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Ability to change NSD names

    We would like the ability to change the name of existing NSDs. This change could be done while entire GPFS NSD Server Cluster is down, similar to when you change the NSD ServerList.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    extend mmapplypolicy --scope

    I have a filesystem with >1300 independent filesets and ~540 million files. Running mapplypolicy with --scope filesystem takes a long time because all inodes need to be scanned. For some mmapplypolicy runs I only need to process one fileset so ...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Functionality already exists

    Support NFS Ganesha Preserve_Unlinked feature

    Prevent NFS "silly rename" behaviour
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    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..
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Enhance mmshutdown confirm shutdown logic to make it ctrl-c resistend.

    We had a maintenance window and want to update a storage-cluster that own 20 FS for native K8s and OCP-Clusters. We see if a additionally mmshutdown are happen and the Admin make on the prompt a ctl-c the shutdown process are working together and ...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Glacier like Object Storage teiring in Tape. With compatibility with S3 API/Policies

    A growing trend I ha e noticed in my domain is data ownership and residency. However, costs exponentially rise as data has grown due to a lack of understanding of what data is being stored (partially due o GDPR which protects against data being vi...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

    Storage Scale - Rest API for file system defragmentation

    With the rapid growth in demand for AIGC and autonomous driving, our GPFS file systems are getting larger and larger. We know that disk fragmentation within a file system is an unavoidable condition. As time goes by, the space occupied by file sys...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    TSM Audit library should not require setting the library "offline"

    TSM Library Manager often loses information about the location of a cartridge in the library.Most of all cases happen after a Drive-, or Robot-mechanics failure.TSM Librarymanager then demands an "Audit Library".To do that "audit", we need to stop...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Future consideration

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