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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Use transactional write model and issue periodic disk cache flushes

GPFS (at least on Linux) does not attempt to flush the cache of the block devices to which it is writing. It relies on O_DIRECT to bypass host write cache but this does not guarantee data has been flushed to stable media. This RFE requests that GP...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Make mmclone permissions work like cp

Currently, a file clone created with mmclone always has its group owner set to the primary gid of the creating process, without regard to the setgid bit of the containing directory, and without regard to the group owner of the original file. Other...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Make mmclone permissions work like cp

Currently, a file clone created with mmclone always has its group owner set to the primary gid of the creating process, without regard to the setgid bit of the containing directory, and without regard to the group owner of the original file. Other...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Pre-occupy system resource for GPFS on nodes

Since GPFS is so critical, any standard way (from GPFS engineering or support) to configure GPFS on each node (mgmt., NSD, FPO and clients) to pre-occupy certain amount of memory and no other processes can use. I know that RHEL cgroup may be a goo...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Enhance Installation Toolkit Support for Cluster with active usesudowrapper configuration

We are planing to Implement saveguard vault design with use of saveguard snapshots. One requirement here the cluster must use sudowrapper as a prerequisite to work and beeing secure.The ansible installationtoolkit has currently no support for sudo...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

preallocating space in a file running an AFM cache

preallocating space in a file running an AFM cache isn't supported at present. This is partially documented here:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_4.2.3/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v4r23.doc/bl1ins_afmlimitations.htm At least it men...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Provide mechanism to choose whether webhook messages events field may carry an array of events or just a single event

Spectrum Scale is capable of sending webhooks to recipients. These hooks contain information about events and such. According to Scale’s documentation, this is the json payload of such hooks: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.5?topic=...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Modify Spectrum scale GUI theme/layout to avoid security finding

Security findings: For the Wireless, open a ticket with the vendor to determine how to change the theme or layout of the web/gpfs login page and/or a feature request to change layout due to graphics definitions in the HTML matching wireless access...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale Container Storage Interface Driver compatibility rhel 7.4

My environment is as follows：gpfs version：Spectrum_Scale_Data_Access-5.1.0.2-x86_64-Linux-installCSI version：IBM Spectrum Scale Container Storage Interface Driver 2.1.0Kubernetes version ：1.19.3 https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY_C...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Avoid un-necessary audit logging for ls/mmlsattr/ILM list policy.

ls/mmlsattr/ILM list POLICY are creating OPEN event logs. AFAIK, these actions doesn't open the file only read the metadata of a file, generating the audit logs on these kinda operations is creating lot of audit logs for us. It's mentioned in doc,...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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