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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Option to reduce verbosity of NFSv4 ACLs and use standard format

When using NFSv4 ACLs the Spectrum Scale commands use a verbose format to describe each ACL entry, rather than the standard single line as per the NFSv4 standard. This request is to have a command line argument to the ACL commands (mmeditacl, mmge...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Spectrum Scale Object Support Currency

We had many request to implement a object Storage-Protokoll in our Company. We plan to implement Scale with Object-Support and want to enable s3. But today in the 5.0.x Code Stream only Openstack Pike are here available. Our Request are to go fowa...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

mmhealth should complain about NSDs which have lost one path

Listing the NSDs shows that some of themhave only one path available. One of the two servers of a building block does not see the Volume:[root@justnsd01a ~]# mmlsnsd -f cesSharedRoot -X Disk name NSD volume ID Device Devtype Node name Remarks ----...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

GPFS 5.0 CES NFS show NFS Clients which actually mount the exported filesystem (like Linux showmount)

We use Spectrum Scale Protocols 5 with NFS Ganesha.When exporting a filesystem to several NFS Clients (e. g. * or other), we could not see which NFS Client actually mount the exported filesystem.In Kernel based NFS you can use the command "showmou...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Increment RPM Release Number for ifix/efix RPM Releases

Increment RPM release number for ifix/efix RPM releases so they're differentiated by "rpm" and "yum", and thus not require the use of "yum reinstall" or "rpm --force -U" to install. Properly incremented release numbers will allow for a normal upgr...
over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Add GPFS Fileset quota metrics/monitoring

Product: Spectrum Scale quota monitoring (specially for filesets) We use GPFS fileset quota. These fileset quota is only monitored internally by the GPFS GUI - if the GPFS GUI is installed. If the fileset quota exceeded, the system will give you n...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

support nsd network checksums in non gnr environment

Support nsd network checksums in environments without ESS/GNR (see the settings mentioned in this thread https://www.mail-archive.com/gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org/msg02705.html).
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

multi network connections support (multirail)

Michael Daubman and Lisa visited CMA(China Meteorological Administration). in the meeting, CMA raised this requirement: they hope GPFS to provide the network connection fault tolerance. Linux bond doesn't help CMA because their clusters have two s...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

AFM NFSv4 Support

We are seeing more and more mandates from customers in fed and commercial that require support for NFSv4 in order for products to be authorized onto the enclave. This include NIST mandates for federal customers and commercial compliance regulation...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Client Supend/Maintenance Mode

Add the possibility to put a GPFS client node in a suspend mode or maintenance mode.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

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