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My ideas: Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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When a server node fails, the client should hang instead of reporting "stale file handle".

When a server node fails, the client should hang instead of reporting "stale file handle".
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Client memory automatically shrinks.

When clients open a lot of files, MMFSD takes up a lot of memory. When the file is closed, the memory should be freed automatically.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

New Fileset Attribute to Ignore Special Owning Group and Everyone Permissions

To allow applications outside our control to function properly when storing data in Spectrum Scale file and directory owners must be granted implicit control and have the ability to run chmod against files and directories they own. Depending on th...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale make inodes allocated to root file system able to be reallocated.

We would like to request an enhancement that will allow for inodes already allocated to the root file system to be reallocated to independent file sets.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Decrease memory requirement in CES.

The Scale FAQ list CES node need 128GB memory. It's huge to most of SMB scenarios. Most of Customer often have 50/100/200 SMB/NFS connections per CES ndoe pair. Customer hope to support 16G/32G/64G/128G memory models in CES node. If it's no, custo...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Improve support for remote CES Protocol Clusters sharing only NFS exports, to support access to the same remote filesystem concurrently

The customer currently has more than. 32000 nfs exports across 5000 paths, which takes a significant amount of time to perform an export definition refresh (any time a new export is added) this generally in excess of 5 minutes for the export defin...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

SMB DFS root

Support Samba "msdfs root" option.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Allow Windows Server to re-export Spectrum Scale mount and serve SMB/CIFS

Allow a Windows NSD client (server licensed) to share the Spectrum Scale mount it has from a Windows NSD Server.
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

multi-tenant requirement for POSIX interface

The ESS storage is manged by customer storage department. the clients are from different business departments. The customer takes NFS interface for data access. The customer wants to take POSIX interface for their clients because of performance. H...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Eliminate the use of ssh and sudo wrappers

In most installations sshd PermitRootLogin is required to be NO for security reasons.That means sudo wrappers must be used. We do not use linux provided sudo but a vendor provided replacement that is centrally managed and auditable. We've had a di...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

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