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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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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
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

A command is needed to manually drop the FilesToCache and StatCache of the Client node mounted with GPFS to release the tokens of the server

same as the topic
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future 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

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

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. ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

gpfs client support rocky linux

we expect gpfs client support more operation systems to meet the needs of mostusers， for example rocky linux
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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 ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

'failureDetectionTime' less than 10

We require to set 'failureDetectionTime' less than 10 in File System replica with DAE/DME or Erasure Coding with ECE. According to case #TS009816891, the minimum value for 'failureDetectionTime' is 10. Could you please allow us to set less than 10...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enhance mmperfmon sensors to generate DF statistics also for .snapshots in Filesystem and filset structure

In the area of Cybercrime we are in preparation of using saveguarded snapshots in our scale based Storage Protect environment. Because of the usage of immutable snapshots we had no sensor that generate space utilisation statistics of snapshots in ...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Convert a root fileset to an independent fileset

With AFM working only with independent filesets and not with root fileset, a customer that is hosting some data that needs to be replicated on its root fileset and that needs to transition to AFM will need to migrate (copy/move) all the data on th...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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