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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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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

Allow guest access to an SMB share

With medical instruments and probably many other devices not always connected to an Active Directory domain due to aging operating systems on the instruments' consoles or instruments' vendors restrictions or limitations, it would be necessary for ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Data inegrity checksum on stored data

In the time of Big Data the storage solutions are increasing in magnitude. With the growth of the data the risk of being hit by a silent data corruption also increases. Spectrum Scale itself does not check the data integrity stored on the NSD. It ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Storage Scale and Spectrum Archive: If a pre-migrated or migrated file is deleted, provide a limited window to recover it without having to use Storage Protect

Current documentation states that for a space-managed fileset if you use snapshots it triggers a recall of the data from tape to disk. The University of Michigan was always told this is a limitation in Storage Scale not Spectrum Archive and that t...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Reflink/ficlone support

reflink/ficlone is a system call for making clones of files, where all data blocks is initially shared, and changes are then done through copy-on-write/redirect-on-write. This can be done through "cp --reflink", or IOCTL_FICLONERANGE system call. ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

API enhancement for File System Size and Utilization

In the current version (5.1.8) the api does not have a usable endpoint for the filesystem to show Current File System Size (Data/System) File system utilisation (size / %used)
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Feature Enhancement to support multiple infiniband partition key

Increase security against eavesdropping by limiting the access to resources using infiniband partition so cross talk and malicious attacks can be eliminate
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

NFS Export: Show connected clients

Tool that will list the clients that are connected to *a particular NFS (CES) export*
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Scale ECE - optimize the efficiency of swapd processing, and ensure consistency in file access

Current Issue: A directory A is created on GPFS Client 1. Then on Client 2, directory A is accessed and a subdirectory B is created inside it. If directory A is subsequently deleted and recreated on GPFS Client 1, attempting to create subdirectory...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Spectrum Scale should support resource management using cgroups version 2 with systemd

The current systemd version in RHEL 8 is now capable doing resource management using cgroups version 2.We are interested in the feature to configure I/O bandwidth. But to use it a device is needed: IOReadIOPSMax=device IOPS, IOWriteIOPSMax=device ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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