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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

    Automatically clean up binaries of old scale releases after updating the product

    When upgrading Scale version (both server and client nodes) using published documentation, we noticed that old versions are accumulating in /usr/lpp/mmfs/ directories. # du -sh /usr/lpp/mmfs/* 717M /usr/lpp/mmfs/5.1.9.3 385M /usr/lpp/mmfs/5.2.0.1 ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Monitoring quota usage per fileset (not inodes, capacity usage)

    Hi team, we found a gap in quota monitoring of spectrum scale filesets, we have the capability to monitor inode usage per-fileset, but not quota consumption in terms of capacity. Becasuse of that we urgently need a feature that could alert us when...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

    Improvement of modifying NFSv4 ACLs

    Hi,modifications on NFSv4 ACLs are very slow, especially if one modify pathes recursively with many files and subfolders (this could takes days on our system!). E.g. to add an additional ACL to a tree one has to read first the ACLs from the file b...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Protocols - S3: subnet restrictions in S3 bucket policies

    One of our ESS clusters stores highly sensitive data for around two thousand projects that needs to be kept strictly separate between projects, so we neeed the possibility to add subnet-requirements to buckets for proper data separation, like we c...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Protocols - S3: support S3A

    Our complete Bigdata-Workload are going to use s3A Function to store Data in s3 Buckets. We see no offical support statement from IBM. Please add these to the supportet list of function in usage of s3A. Noobaa as the Base support this why mms3 not...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Ability to change NSD names

    We would like the ability to change the name of existing NSDs. This change could be done while entire GPFS NSD Server Cluster is down, similar to when you change the NSD ServerList.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    Provide a xattr namespace for xattrs that should disappear once file changes

    It would be useful to be able to set xattrs on files that get invalidated once the file changes. F.ex. we could set a user.valid.backup attribute to indicate that the file has been backed up, and a user.valid.checksum to store a checksum of the fi...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Protocols - NFS: health event if FD hard limit is above threshold

    Ganesha NFS server has a limit of max. open files, which is calculated by 80% of the maxFilesToCache parameter. If Ganesha Server is reaching this limit, Ganesha NFS server will stop working and all NFS clients will loose access to data. In curren...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    SMB - implement expiry date on user / groups information

    when a user first time authenticates to AD server, winbind stores all the group info in samlogon cache. Unless user re-authenticates or cache is removed, user's group data is taken from cache and not from AD. But it happens every now and then that...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Capacity quota support for HSM managed file systems

    We have two storage scale file systems which are HSM managed using Spectrum Protect for space Management. In total we are storing ~40 PB user data on tape here. Each group has been granted an amount of files and capacity for all our file systems. ...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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