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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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AFM for Object Storage Support

We have a large set of science data that we save on our IBM Spectrum Scale system and to be able to reduce the amount of spinning fast disk are we using IBM Spectrum Archive to extend our storage to tape. But now does our data science people ask u...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Parallelization/enhancement of pool migrations of individual large files

When running migrations between different pools often it appears the tail latency of the ILM run is dictated by a small number of large files This seems to be due to the pool migration of any individual file being a single threaded activity that i...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Lessen Spectrum Scale CNSA's pods dependency on running as super user (root)

Today as of Scale version 5.1.1.4, some of the Container Native Storage Access (CNSA) containers for running Scale on Openshift have the need to run as super-user (root). Although it's understandable from the multi-decade history of Scale itself a...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Option Needed to Disable Implicit WRITE_ACL Permission for Owner on NFSv4 ACLs

According to https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY_5.1.0/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r10.doc/bl1adm_admglnv4.htm Spectrum Scale grants implicit WRITE_ACL permission to the owner of files and directories in conflict with the NFSv4 specifi...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Improve AFM to handle hard links correctly

As per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.2?topic=limitations-afm-afm-dr support for hard links in AFM is very constrained. This is especially problematic for the AFM data migration use case outlined here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/s...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Ganesha Per Client Statistics

ganesha_mgr/ganesha_stats allow only seeing either the overall NFS operations or the per-export breakdown of the NFS operations. There is no command that displays the per-client operations of a particular export which is critical when trying to tr...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Migrate system pool from non-vdisk to vdisk NSDs

GEICO is in the process of migrating from older Scale infrastructure to an ESS infrastructure. Non-disruptive migration is blocked when Migrate system pool from non-vdisk to vdisk NSDs
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Free unused dynamic heap memory

The GPFS memory footprint is defined by- pagepool- shared memory pool- heap- stack of all threads (512KB per GPFS thread, usually the stack size is not an issue) "pagepool" and "shared memory pool" are configurable, but no parameter in GPFS to con...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Enhance information provided in case of errors flushing file data from pagepool to persistent storage

In case of failures in that area, file data may be corrupted. Providing the information which files are affected omits the effort of manually identifying them by expensive scans of the file system.
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

fine-grained performance monitoring for protocol

The customer raised this requirement in their workshop in 2018:1. for protocol/NFS, PingAn could monitor the throughput of each exported points. PingAn raised the request to monitor the throughput from each clients to see which client is taking mo...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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