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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Add logrotation for cherrypy logs in /var/adm/ras/cherrypy

Please add log rotation for the cherrypy logs in /var/adm/ras/cherrypy They can get quite large and fill up the available disk space.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Delivered

CES Protocol Node support for IPv6

Ability support IPv6 on the Protocol nodes.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Allow Spectrum Scale Adds and Deletes via List with individual node errors

mmaddnode/mmdelnode current behavior when submitting a "NodeFile" is if one node is in the cluster or fails to add/delete for any reason then the whole list fails. This behavior seems to be the case with most of the mm commands that accept -N <...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

RAS Enhancements for Spectrum Scale mmchnsd

In an today 7/24 work area and the use of spectrum scale as a general data plane there are no timeframe to unmount or stop a hole Spectrum scale cluster. If a customer has the requirement to change the nsd-server -nodes because of growing or chang...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Add afmRefreshOnce and afmReaddirOnce parameters to ISS REST API fileset endpoints

With ISS 5.0.5"Data migration by using AFM migration enhancements" was introduced. And with it two new fileset parameters afmRefreshOnce and afmReaddirOnce. In 5.1 you introduced these parameters in the REST API GET fileset calls but not in the PO...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

NFS Ganesha server to support over 4TB user quota report.

User quota below 4TB report currect :$ quota -s Disk quotas for user ibm (uid 1000): Filesystem space quota limit grace files quota limit grace 10.155.7.115:/gpfs/gpfs0/ibm 18414M 4000G 0K 33 0 0 User quota over 4TB report this capacity which is...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Allow a comment to be created/added/deleted to a node definition

Allow a comment to be attached to or removed from a node definition with the cluster.
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

support nsd network checksums in non gnr environment

Support nsd network checksums in environments without ESS/GNR (see the settings mentioned in this thread https://www.mail-archive.com/gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org/msg02705.html).
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Contention on client on mutex BufDescCacheObjMutex when multiple local processes access same file

When Running DIII-D tests (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIII-D_(tokamak) ) on Spectrum Scale we see when adding more clients contention on the refered mutex. Details on https://jazz07.rchland.ibm.com:21443/jazz/web/projects/GPFS#action=com.ibm.te...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

HDFS transparency: Support Certificates with 4096 key length

As security requirements rise more and more, it is essential to support for HDFS transparency certificates with 4096 key length instead of only 2048.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

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