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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Allow group owners to also query filesets

We have user filesets (independent) that are owned by root but the group is actually the user. Unfortunately Spectrum Scale seems not to take group ownership into account and only the owner can query the fileset (mmlsfileset) which seems overly re...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Support 256 or more cluster watches per cluster.

Only 25 cluster watches are supported per cluster, but we need 256 at least.
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

document privateSubnetOverride and make it switchable without shutting doen the whole cluster

This helps in adding (additional) high performance networks to existing clusters
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale - automatic audit log files rotation

The File Audit Logging functionality from Spectrum Scale captures file operations on a file system and logs them to a retention enabled fileset.Depending on the number of operations at the Spectrum Scale file system, it can generate lots of audit ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Add zstd as a compression option

Although the existing compression options are okay sometimes it would be nice to be have more options where speed and decent compression ratios are achievable. Zstd has been gaining traction both in the Linux area and is already on some IBM tape d...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

REST API - Quotas for Users and Groups

Create a REST API to show User and Group quotas. Currently, the only quotas are Filesystems and Filesets - If users have a homedir set to a fileset you can get their quota, however if user or group quotas are set they cannot be retrieved.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Increase the maximum number of independent filesets per filesystem

Currently we are hovering under 1000 independent file sets within the user file system. Even taking into account file sets that are removed when users leave site it is very possible that we will hit the limit within a year.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

SMB transparent failover

The current design only support NFS transparent failover and SMB is not. Without SMB transparent failover, end user need to interactive with failover session. Customer hope to support CIFS session reconnect automatically during CES FO/FB. This can...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

ARM Support in Spectrum Scale

The Jülich Supercompting Centre is running HPC compute resources for the European Science community. The storage solution is based of a central Spectrum Scale storage cluster which is mounted on ~8.000 compute nodes using GPFS remote cluster mount...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

add --auto-inode-limit for independent filesets

In Storage Scale 5.1.4 mmcrfs/mmchfs introduced the --(no)auto-inode-limit switches. Unfortunately this only works for whole filesystems and cannot be finetuned for individual (independent) filesets. There are situations where you have a mixed env...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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