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My ideas: Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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mmsmb support hosts allow option

Currently it is not possible to specify the "hosts allow" option when adding/changing a smb share via the mmsmb command. Though it is possible to add it with net command. E.g:net conf setparm exportname 'hosts allow' <ipaddress> This option ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Graceful failure of AFM recall timeouts when using AFM-NSD + Support for offline file awareness with AFM (related issues)

Any client using AFM-NSD Caching with a home storage repository that uses DMAPI aware Hierarchical Storage Management is at risk. AFM-NSD has no ability to gracefully respond when an AFM Cache requst to a recall filesfrom home times out. AFM-NFS u...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enhancment to Spectrum Scale DMAPI - dmapiEventTimeout code

The Spectrum Scale Data Management API for HSM integration has a configuration parameter dmapiEventTimeout with specific behaviour for NFS environments. However, this behaviour does not translate to other protocol scenarios such as AFM, SMB or Obj...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

mmchconfig and mmvdisk configure need to be more transparent

Today, there is no association between mmvdisk configure and mmchconfig. The RFE is to have one command for setting both GPFS parameters and mmvdisk and for mmvdisk to have a way to preserve any previously customized parameters.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

AFM-COS configuration option for proxy servers

At the moment you cannot configure AFM-COS to use an explizit http(s) proxy server to connect to an external S3 storage.Please also add proxy support to AFM-COS as it is already available for the TCT or call home features.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

pNFS Support

Support pNFS (specifically, multiple pNFS CES clusters for any given number of filesystems). There appears to be support for pNFS within the GPFS Ganesha FSAL but at present it's not documented, certainly not supported, and doesn't seem to work.
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

AFM for Object Storage Support

We have a large set of science data that we save on our IBM Spectrum Scale system and to be able to reduce the amount of spinning fast disk are we using IBM Spectrum Archive to extend our storage to tape. But now does our data science people ask u...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Add Storage Class Attribute to Data Pushed to S3

When pushing data to S3 via the Cloudgateway service it would be helpful to be able to specify the storage class. If you don't specify the storage class the data will be stored in S3 Standard. You can create a Lifecycle policy to push the data to ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

User unable to query fileset if permissions are root as owner and user as group

It is not unusual for user directories permissions to be set where root is the owner and the user is the group for operational reasons. However this leads to the situation where user have a degraded level of service as they cannot query their file...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SMB lease support

Migrating system currently using a windows share to Spectrum scale and experiencing performance issues:The Windows server grantsSMB leases to the client, thus multiple opens won't break the client caching. As a result there are fewer and larger RE...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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