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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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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...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

GPFS client support larger memory address space

Currently GPFS client can use upto 1TB address space, but now GPU servers already configured with 2TB memory, and 3T, 4T memory in future. the address space below 1TB might be used by vfio, for nic, gpu passthrough, so GPFS client has very little ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

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...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

ARM Support in Spectrum Scale (GPFS)

Our HPC infrastructure is to have a central Spectrum Scale storage solution. all our HPC systems do a native GPFS remote cluster mount.Due to changes in the HPC market we are looking (and also other sides we think) especially at ARM based compute ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Enhancement request to Spectrum Scale event alerting mechanism to allow event correlation

Spectrum Scale has long provided mechanisms to alert about events. In the past, it was common to use callbacks to do that. Today, Scale provides webhooks that can be received by consumers. Also, mmhealth today provides a good source of info about ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Signing of Spectrum scale modules

Requesting signing of spectrum scale V5 and higher, reason when installing gpfs on SuSE SLES 15 SP1 cluster fail to be active due to, tracedev.ko module not signed. Latest SLES 15 has a security feature secure boot, that deny unsigned modules to b...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

All GPFS services need to support FIPS.

Because of DISA-STIG requirements, all systems we use must enable FIPS. mmcallhome (and maybe other components of GPFS) use MD5 summing, which will not work on a FIPS enabled system. This needs to be fixed.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

File Access Logging support for read only remote mounts

File Access Logging in Spectrum Scale 5.1 eliminates the need for kafka, but it only works if the filesystem is mounted read/write. So a remote cluster with a RO mount is not supported by FAL.
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

enhance DELETE policies

When writing a cleanup policy using as DELETE rule it can happen that a file cannot deleted for some reason (e.g. user has deleted it in the meantime or file is still in use). For a certain type of cleanup procedures this is tolerable and you do n...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Support for SEDs with ECE

Support the use of SEDs for storage with ECE, either with locally managed keys, centrally managed keys, or ideally, both
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

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