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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Provide mechanism to choose whether webhook messages events field may carry an array of events or just a single event

    Spectrum Scale is capable of sending webhooks to recipients. These hooks contain information about events and such. According to Scale’s documentation, this is the json payload of such hooks: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.5?topic=...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

    Spectrum Scale Integration with the systemd mount facility (JUMP Trading LLC)

    Spectrum Scale does not currently integrate with the systemd mounts facility, which means that systemd has no way of determining if Spectrum Scale file systems are properly mounted on a node. Please see the following discussion on the Fedora syste...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

    Scale version on ESS lags behind critical fixes

    The version of Scale on ESS lags behind releases of Scale, exposing customers to critical defects.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

    Spectrum Scale Needs to Accommodate more than 128 GPFS Max Groups per UserID with AIX 7.1

    Currently there is a limitation of MAX groups per user what are supported by current GPFS on AIX 7.1 Long time ago AIX 7.1 (~2010) did increase maximum of groups per user up to 2048 where GPFS keep support to only first 128 groups ( like old AIX 6...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

    Add LROC support for Encrypted data

    When using Local Read-Only Cache (LROC) functionality with encrypted file system data, the LROC function is bypassed and data is not held locally to increase performance. Data from encrypted file systems should be used with LROC. I should be held ...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

    Support CES NFS on SLES on Linux on Sysetm z

    We run SUSE (12 and 15) SLES and the AFM DR. We need to have it running over NFS v4 since NFS V3 is considered not secure.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

    Tool to generate clusterdefinition.txt from a running cluster

    clusterdefinition.txt is the core of the toolkit that is used not only for install but during the lifecycle of the cluster. Due multiple reasons (HW fail on node that was used to deploy, manual add of nodes, NSD, IPs, ..., many other) the file wou...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

    add support for "defaultHelperNodes" in AFM

    mmafmctl always runs "mmapplypolicy" over all nodes which mount filesystem regardless of definitions of "defaultHelperNodes"As for now, the Helper nodes in AFM code are hardcoded as "mount" (see mmafmctl), while existing configuration parameter "d...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

    DMAPI call dm_fd_to_handle can cause kernel crash

    Our concerns centre around the behaviour of dm_fd_to_handle and dm_path_to_handle. According to the Data Storage Management (XDSM) API specification, these functions should fail with ENXIO when “The file system containing the file opened on fd or ...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

    add sort options to mmbackup

    mmapplypolicy knows some command line options to control the sorting, namely [--max-sort-bytes MaxBytes] [--other-sort-options SortOptions] [--sort-buffer-size Size] [--sort-command SortCommand] Unfortunately mmbackup does not offer any of these. ...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

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