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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Rolling upgrade of CES protocol node with object services

Current operation: Because object operations interact with all nodes, all object nodes must be at the same level. Therefore, object services need to be stopped across the cluster for the duration of the upgrade. This RFE is for allowing rolling up...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Provide efficient read-only file-level snapshots

Today, mmclone can be used to effectively provide a read-only snapshot of a single file (mv origfile snapfile ; mmclone snap snapfile ; mmclone copy snapfile origfile). But to clean up the snapshot when it is no longer needed requires mmclone spli...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Support LibFabrics

As more high speed networks are available (IB,OmniPath, Etc ROCE, other RDMA capable networks) The Open Fabrics org has defined a more generic interface then libverbs (which is very network specific) to enable make it easier to take advantage of n...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Online update of Spectrum Scale Clients

I would like to have the ability to update spectrum scale releases on clients online without shuting down the gpfs on each client. So the new feature should contain an "on the fly" replacement of the kernel module during usage of the gpfs filesyst...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Implement end-to-end checksums for non GNR environments

Implement data block checksums in GPFS to protect against silent data corruption. This is particularly important in an FPO environment where there are no RAID controllers to protect against individual SATA drives returning bad data to the applicat...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

check if underlying file system is mounted when creating a NFS share

When a new NFS share is created, the mmnfs command should check if the underlying file system is mounted on all CES nodes and fail if this precondition is not fulfilled.
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale automatic kernel modules

The technology is there to make this happen, especially if using Enterprise distributions such as Red Hat or Suse. You can also throw Ubuntu to some extent in the mix as they don't apply kAPI breaking changes very often. Our customer was successfu...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Support for Windows Client nodes in AFM Cache Cluster

Require support for Spectrum Scale Windows client nodes with AFM Cache clusters.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Compress files on initial placement

V5 Functionality. Allow a file placement policy to specify compression. The fast compression library combined with the compressed data write will be faster than the time taken to write the uncompressed data to disk and the same for reading. So the...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

API enhancements for invoicing/billing

In the web gui for Scale you can easily get the accounts and used storage under the "Object / Accounts" button. But there is no simple way to retrieve this information using api/rest. (There is not even a scheduled report function for it). This is...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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