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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Enable opt-in flush-on-close feature in GPFS

Provide a mechanism by which a GPFS client may opt-in to enable implicit flush whenever close is called on a file opened for writing. This provides some additional safety against mmfsd crashes and node crashes impacting data which users believe wa...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Ability for protocol replication to co-exist with other non-protocol AFM-based DR instances

We need protocol replication to be able to co-exist with other non-protocol AFM-based DR instances On our advanced edition GPFS clusters, we wish to have both: o AFM-based DR for normal filesets (managed via mmafmctl) o protocol DR for filesets wi...
about 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

A new option to support FQDN Name in mmgetstate

This customer has general policy for hostname and hostname does include .(dot) and the characters after .(dot) is a main separator.A sample example is below;host1.poc1host1.poc2..host1.pocn So when we add this in a cluster, mmgetstate use just sho...
over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Treat all independent filesets identically to the global namespace operations

Independent filesets do not raise callbacks on lowSpace or noSpace. Therefore it is very easy for an independent fileset to become full instantly affecting users.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Use the running policy engine to SetXattr for all files and folders under a PATH_NAME

Ability to automatically tag the Xattr of data with defined attributes such as a project name.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Delivered

Override the sort routine within policy processing

Ability to specify extra args to sort (E.G. for natural sort for numerical sequences) or to use a user specified program to perform the sort using a different algorithm.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Metablocks to require less context switching

Metablocks to require less context switching (I.E. increased performance)
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Delivered

Permit GPFS commands to be executed based on failure group

We have a large GPFS FPO cluster (560 nodes). When performing maintenance it is important that we can manage according to failure group. for example we may need to upgrade all nodes in one failure group. Hence if we have 3 copies of the data, we a...
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Improve ability to detect BROKEN files

Currently it is not possible to easily identify BROKEN files in a GPFS FPO cluster following the failure of a disk. This can arise when there is a single copy of the data (which is on the failed disk). IBM advise running the following command: mmf...
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Add rpm dependency on m4 package

GPFS hasa dependency on the m4 package. in particular it is required by the mmchpolicy command. Consequently please can you add it as a dependency in the GPFS rpms. thanks Chris
almost 11 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

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