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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Add compressed/ill-compressed options to mmfind

For a while we have maintained our own modified versions of mmfind and tr_findToPol.pl in /usr/lpp/mmfs/samples/ilm so we can identify the compressed and illcompressed files. It would be nice if this feature could be considered for inclusion in fu...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

mmhealth node show should explicitly show the cluster status, too

Currently mmhealth node show can report the node as healthy while there are problems elsewhere in the cluster, e.g. in the filesystem component:# mmhealth node show Node name: somenode.somedomain Node status: HEALTHY Status Change: 13 days ag...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Allow Windows Server to re-export Spectrum Scale mount and serve SMB/CIFS

Allow a Windows NSD client (server licensed) to share the Spectrum Scale mount it has from a Windows NSD Server.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale make inodes allocated to root file system able to be reallocated.

We would like to request an enhancement that will allow for inodes already allocated to the root file system to be reallocated to independent file sets.
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

support mmapplypolicy to scan file in remote cluster

we use mmapplypolicy to scan file status (mostly metadata like file path, size, mtime, afm cache state, ...) in a specific directory or fileset. But in remote cluster mmapplypolicy is not allowed to do it. we need support for scan file in remote c...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Spectrum Scale support for routing over infiniband fabrics

The current implementation of Spectrum Scale Infiniband networking, does not allow for or support the allocation of GUID for a bonded interface when working with Mellanox's IP2GID tool which is required for configuring IP's for environment with mu...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support for dynamic expansion of each constituent volume in Storage Scale GPFS's File System, especially in combination with Db2 PureScale on Public Cloud.

It is necessary to support dynamic expansion of each constituent volume itself, rather than GPFS expansion by adding volumes. Adding volumes has a limit on the number of expansions. The method of adding a volume larger than the existing volume an...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Eliminate the use of ssh and sudo wrappers

In most installations sshd PermitRootLogin is required to be NO for security reasons.That means sudo wrappers must be used. We do not use linux provided sudo but a vendor provided replacement that is centrally managed and auditable. We've had a di...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

multi-tenant requirement for POSIX interface

The ESS storage is manged by customer storage department. the clients are from different business departments. The customer takes NFS interface for data access. The customer wants to take POSIX interface for their clients because of performance. H...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Add debug kernel support to GPFS

Hi I was trying to start gpfs on a debug rhel kernel for kmemleak debugging It failed due to being unsupported. Can this support be added in future GPFS versios?
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

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