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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    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...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Suppression of ro BR token when reading at RO mode

    A BR token is used to keep cache coherency of data across nodes. We experienced that 'ro BR' token is requested by each node even other nodes read the same rage of data at the same time. Unless the range is never changed by all nodes, getting of r...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    CES support on SLES 12 SP3 Little Endian

    Recompile the CES packages to support SLES 12 SP3 on Power 8 and newer processors. There is already support in place for RHEL, but some customers are using SLES as their primary OS primarily due to SAP Hana installations and there is no support fo...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Scale capability to remote mount filesets

    implement ability to remote mount a fileset instead of a full filesystem
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 8 Not under consideration

    NFS V4.1 Support

    Need support for NVS V4.1
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Set multiple file systems to maintenance mode at the same time with --maintenance-mode yes

    We have limited time when taking maintenance downtimes and we need to get file system into maintenance mode as quickly as possible. It can take a long time to get file systems into maintenance-mode, often having to wait for very long internal moun...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    CTDB Enhancement 50/5000 to ensure an uninterrupted upgrade to new Release levels

    The problem with the SMB upgrade is with the data shared between the protocol nodes. It is not tied to the protocol version used between SMB clients and the protocol nodes. Samba stores internal data (e.g. for the SMB state of open files) in tdb d...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA & OpenShift w/two network adapters

    Client has existing big Spectrum Scale infrastructure (not-containerized) with hundreds clients connected from different environments. Spectrum Scale is using dedicated not routed VLAN for daemon-interface network following IBM best practice. Ther...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Allow use of directory other then /tmp for GPFS temporary files.

    We use GPFS / Spectrum Storage on our High Performance Computing Cluster for it's primary file system and use various mm* commands to monitor the health of the cluster and alert us if GPFS goes offline on a node. If a users HPC compute job inadver...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    Improve DIO on sparse files to avoid E-HOLE error

    The customer is using Db2 pureScale and allocates tablespace using preallocation.But there are enormous performance issue was caused by the DIO thrashing ( frequent switching back and forth between DIO and Buffered IO ) due to E_HOLE errors.We ana...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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