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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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GPFS 5.0 CES NFS show NFS Clients which actually mount the exported filesystem (like Linux showmount)

We use Spectrum Scale Protocols 5 with NFS Ganesha.When exporting a filesystem to several NFS Clients (e. g. * or other), we could not see which NFS Client actually mount the exported filesystem.In Kernel based NFS you can use the command "showmou...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Allow Spectrum Scale Adds and Deletes via List with individual node errors

mmaddnode/mmdelnode current behavior when submitting a "NodeFile" is if one node is in the cluster or fails to add/delete for any reason then the whole list fails. This behavior seems to be the case with most of the mm commands that accept -N <...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

CES Protocol Node support for IPv6

Ability support IPv6 on the Protocol nodes.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Add afmRefreshOnce and afmReaddirOnce parameters to ISS REST API fileset endpoints

With ISS 5.0.5"Data migration by using AFM migration enhancements" was introduced. And with it two new fileset parameters afmRefreshOnce and afmReaddirOnce. In 5.1 you introduced these parameters in the REST API GET fileset calls but not in the PO...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

RAS Enhancements for Spectrum Scale mmchnsd

In an today 7/24 work area and the use of spectrum scale as a general data plane there are no timeframe to unmount or stop a hole Spectrum scale cluster. If a customer has the requirement to change the nsd-server -nodes because of growing or chang...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Allow a comment to be created/added/deleted to a node definition

Allow a comment to be attached to or removed from a node definition with the cluster.
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Contention on client on mutex BufDescCacheObjMutex when multiple local processes access same file

When Running DIII-D tests (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIII-D_(tokamak) ) on Spectrum Scale we see when adding more clients contention on the refered mutex. Details on https://jazz07.rchland.ibm.com:21443/jazz/web/projects/GPFS#action=com.ibm.te...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Multi-socket TCPIP for gpfs clients

Customer has asked that we change the way GPFS clients connect to the server. Instead of single single stream to a single socket they would like to multi-stream TCPIP for gpfs clients, so they wouldn't be limited to a single socket (and in turn, l...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

support nsd network checksums in non gnr environment

Support nsd network checksums in environments without ESS/GNR (see the settings mentioned in this thread https://www.mail-archive.com/gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org/msg02705.html).
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

expel the right node although the node is high priority

one ethernet port in one of quorum nodes flapping leading the cluster manger to expel lots of other health nodes in several hours, till the gpfs can not provides service. IBM should add reasonable expel rules to expel the problem node As Alibaba k...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

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