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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Enhance mmchfileset like commands to move from dependent to independent or vice versa

    Clients would like to convert to different types of filesets.
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    Provide helper to determine metadata size

    We have a GNR cluster with > 650 million files, distributed over two filesystems. All disks are DataAndMetadata. Policy runs and mmbackup are taking very long. One speedup suggestion of the GPFS support was to use explicit metadata storage. Unf...
    20 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Prevent attribute changes by non-root users

    We are running a big filesystem that controls file access by (nfsv3) ACLs. The ACLs are carefully crafted to ensure the desired file accesses for the data. As ACLs are not directly visible via ls (there's only the tiny + character) users tend to m...
    21 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Automatically clean up binaries of old scale releases after updating the product

    When upgrading Scale version (both server and client nodes) using published documentation, we noticed that old versions are accumulating in /usr/lpp/mmfs/ directories. # du -sh /usr/lpp/mmfs/* 717M /usr/lpp/mmfs/5.1.9.3 385M /usr/lpp/mmfs/5.2.0.1 ...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Alibaba Cloud EBS now supports NVMe Persistent Reservation (PR). Please add support accordingly.

    Alibaba Cloud EBS now supports NVMe Persistent Reservation (PR). Please add support accordingly. ==========================nvme resv-register /dev/nvme1n1 --crkey=0x1 --nrkey=0x12345678 --rrega=0NVME Reservation success ==========================n...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    mmbackup using virtualmountpoints for filesets

    We are submitting a Request for Enhancement (RFE) to improve the integration between IBM's mmbackup utility for Scale and IBM Storage Protect (formerly TSM). This enhancement will address significant performance bottlenecks we've encountered when ...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    Provide a xattr namespace for xattrs that should disappear once file changes

    It would be useful to be able to set xattrs on files that get invalidated once the file changes. F.ex. we could set a user.valid.backup attribute to indicate that the file has been backed up, and a user.valid.checksum to store a checksum of the fi...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    CES Support for L3 BGP Network

    Currently CES only supports Layer 2 networks where there is a specific subnet such as 192.168.20.0/24 where the virtual IP (VIP) addresses for CES would get assigned to an interface such as eth0 on a node. This does NOT work with Layer 3 networks ...
    2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Updates to tsapplypolicy to stop the after directory and inode scans

    The tsapplypolicy tool is very efficient at safely handling the scans of directories and inodes across many nodes. However it is using very slow tools for sorting and merging this data. As a result we cannot run the mmapplypolicy operation on very...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    improve mmxcp logging and monitoring

    mmxcp logs all output to /var/..../ras/mmxcp.log That is 1. pretty unreadable and not very informative. If multiple instances of the mmxcp are running all logging is done to the same log file. It would be good to have one log file per mmxcp instan...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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