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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Option for consistently following symbolic links in AFM

AFM's default behavior updates symlinks without fetching the target file at the home site. This behavior can cause applications that are relying on that symlink to break. We are requesting a feature that allows AFM to follow symlinks if the target...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Planned for future release

FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info

FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info - These items can cause a cluster wide outage and should be logged as ERRORS. If they were logged as errors, we could pull them into our Kibana dashboard...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Needs more information

CES 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...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Need a rest API that returns File System and Disc component health status correctly

Please fix the RestAPIs [below] to return healthy events for File system and Disc components as they do not match with CLI output from the mmhealth command. Ticket #TS016301085 documents this issue. [curl -k -u user:psw -X GET --header `accept:app...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

CES NFS - identify client stale I/O errors

Following case - TS018623841.Client NFS when working with several NFS clients - each mounting different CES NFS node , loading python modules - get Stale I/O in random steps. 1. Same python is used through the same script.2. We use autofs to mount...
28 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

mmbackup: Backup extended acls separately to eliminate "updated" backup

mmbackup should generate a database of file/dir extended acls and back up such database so that TSM can be run with the SKIPACL option enabled. When the only change to a file is its extended acl or permissions, it is a waste of resources having to...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

data tiering of block (ranges ) within a file

A file needs to be able to be located partially on multiple storage TIERs, depending on various specific conditions like policy rules, selectable by ranges in Bytes or #blocks, rules for file names etc..The goal is that data within one single file...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

CES S3 - multiple supplementary groups for CES S3 managed S3 accounts

Currently there's only support for a single group ID for each S3 account. This doesn't fit well with normal file system permissions where the same account might need access to several groups of different roles. F.ex. /gpfs/fs1/department might all...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

CES NFS - extended attributes

Storage Scale (GPFS) does support extended attributes for the users like: > getfattr -d stephan.txt > md5sum stephan.txt 041ad89a0dc0772f384f8d1bf4ddff4b stephan.txt > setfattr -n user.md5 -v 041ad89a0dc0772f384f8d1bf4ddff4b stephan.txt &...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Azure Linux support for Scale ECE

Azure CTO has a mandate for all providing Core Applications to run on Azure Linux. In order to expand into HDFS environment ( 4 Exabytes of usable storage) , Scale ECE must run on Azure Linux. This is a request for ECE to run on Azure Linux.
17 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

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