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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Confusing status message 'mmlspdisk'

    My Client submits the following:After carrier release the status is even more confusing [DIARSS root@ems1-xcat ~]# mmlspdisk all --not-okpdisk: replacementPriority = 6.77 name = "e1d2s02" device = "//essio32.ib.rsshpc1/dev/sdpe(notEnabled/closed),...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    In the Future, adding Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 based on PCIe 6 or CXL 4.0 based on PCIe 7 to the Spectrum Scale to integrate it with Nvidia DGX ( when it enabled the CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0

    This is a necessary idea to develop a new version of Basic POD or SuperPOD which can use Nvidia DGX, Nvidia DPUs, Intel IPU, Intel FPGA , Xilinx FPGA and other CXL enabled Accelerators. We can use this super POD for advanced Cyber security solutio...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    REST API should support managing fileset access control for remote mounts

    Customer wants to change which filesets their compute cluster has access to, based on which group of users are using it. This is to protect groups of users to see each others files, even for root. They will implement filesystem encryption to prote...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future 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...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    check if underlying file system is mounted when creating a NFS share

    When a new NFS share is created, the mmnfs command should check if the underlying file system is mounted on all CES nodes and fail if this precondition is not fulfilled.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Enhance RAS to add a mmhealth threshold update Funktion in mmhealth framework

    Currently to change a parameter in the mmhealth thresholds this is only possible with delete and add this same rule. This is error-prone to change only on parameter.The support enhance the servicability to justify one parameter in the threshold ru...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    add a default editor to the mmeditacl command

    Currently there is no built-in editor for the command mmeditacl. However, there is a built-in editor for the command mmedquota. This is a request to add a built-in editor to the mmeditacl command.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Enhance Ansible Toolkit with exclude node support on Install and deploy

    In an heterogene world of scale cluster we had more an more the requirement to install new nodes with higher versions of scale because of some dependencies of OS-Kernel-Levels. (ABI changes as example). We want the same function like exclude suppo...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    GPFS supports parameters to control the memory of pmcollector

    Status: Excessive memory occupy
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    qos support dio

    qos support dio
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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