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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Improve ACL management in Spectrum Scale

Currently, ACL management in Scale is overly difficult. For instance, the mmputacl command requires the entire ACL to be reapplied, rather than just having the ability to add, delete, or modify existing entries. Additionally, inheritance does not ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Remove distinction between private and public IP address ranges

Remove the distinction between processing for private IP address ranges 10.0.0.0, 192.168.0.0 and the other one and public IP address ranges. Process the private subnet ranges the same way public IP address ranges are processed. Remove the undocum...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

To develop a report that shows overall capacity consumed per user that adds up local and offline files and versions

Current quota management on Spectrum Scale only considers consumed space of local files. With the introduction of features such Transparent Cloud Tiering for COS, it is needed a control over the space users are consuming for both local and offline...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

support for runnign VMs in GPFS (see TS003291090)

See TS003291090 If a KVM host runs GPFS client and mounts a filesystem from a gpfs cluster. The KVM host runs a VM which uses a container file stored in the same file system under a independent fileset named kvm01 which is under the root fileset. ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Scale compatibility

Customer would like to avoid having to use SKIPACLUPDATECHECK And UPDATECTIME attributes in Spectrum Protect when backing up Spectrum Scale data
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

REST API Commands in Scale GUI Tasks

When completing tasks in the Spectrum Scale GUI in addition to showing the CLI commands, the equivalent REST API commands would be shown as well. This will help with users who may want to use REST API calls to complete Spectrum Scale management ta...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under 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...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Security: Spectrum Scale read-only access on client nodes

We would like to distribute software using a Spectrum Scale filesystem to compute nodes in an HPC environment but want to make sure malicous users cannot modify files which would enable them to spread malware. In NFS environments this can be estab...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Hide snapshot directory

Hide the snapshot directory by removing its entry from the readdir(3) system call and/or getdents(2) system call. Currently snapshot directories are not actually hidden, they are fully visible but just have a name beginning with a dot. That is jus...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Support for Grouping protocol nodes for separate workloads

Client would like the ability to group Protocol nodes for specific uses rather than having every protocol sharing every export.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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