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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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chmod: Use version that supports NFSv4 ACLs

The version of chmod linked below fully supports the manipulation of NFSv4 ACLs. This is the version that Isilon OneFS uses and it's fantastic. I can add/remove Active Directory users and groups, modify permissions, add ACL control flags, etc., al...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Add compression format options - lz4 for sure, maybe xz

Spectrum Scale 4.2 added support for zlib compression. zlib is moderate compression, and low-medium speed. The implementation allows for compression as a foreground command, or background action. Either is likely to be slow. Decompression can be d...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Spectrum Scale request to be able to lock down daemon listening on a specific IP

System: Latest Spectrum Scale versions Actor: Spectrum Scale users/Security teams Spectrum Scale is used by a wide variety of users in numerous industries. When specifically thinking of network and node security, port security is paramount in high...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Scale version on ESS lags behind critical fixes

The version of Scale on ESS lags behind releases of Scale, exposing customers to critical defects.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

restart ganesha NFS service on failure

when nfs-ganesha goes down (eg. when it is killed), there are no attempts to restart it again. As far as I know, i don't see such a possibility to do this using CES. We see ganesha is down in the log files, and failover to another node goes smooth...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Spectrum Scale Function Enhancement - MD Anderson - integration between Spectrum Protect backup (GPFS) and Spectrum Protect archive (LTFS)

MD Anderson Cancer Center has requested that IBM provide integration between Spectrum Protect backup (GPFS) and Spectrum Protect archive (LTFS) to integrate a “BACKUP REQUIRED BEFORE MIGRATION” functionality in order to eliminate the possibility o...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Support CES NFS on SLES on Linux on Sysetm z

We run SUSE (12 and 15) SLES and the AFM DR. We need to have it running over NFS v4 since NFS V3 is considered not secure.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Expose NFS-Ganesha pseudo path option in GPFS GUI

Current GPFS GUI do not offer NFS-Ganesha pseudo path option when the NFS export is created. The customer do not like to export and mount long directory path. This is very true when we configure unified object and file access - the directory path ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Spectrum Scale Integration with the systemd mount facility (JUMP Trading LLC)

Spectrum Scale does not currently integrate with the systemd mounts facility, which means that systemd has no way of determining if Spectrum Scale file systems are properly mounted on a node. Please see the following discussion on the Fedora syste...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Spectrum Scale Needs to Accommodate more than 128 GPFS Max Groups per UserID with AIX 7.1

Currently there is a limitation of MAX groups per user what are supported by current GPFS on AIX 7.1 Long time ago AIX 7.1 (~2010) did increase maximum of groups per user up to 2048 where GPFS keep support to only first 128 groups ( like old AIX 6...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

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