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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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GPFS mmbackup engine enhancement / mmbackup needs to support newline char

Out of several PMRs with this customer it turned out that mmbackup command does not support newline characters (\n) when used in filenames. As example - ....steinerj/ASTest2/ASTest/yolo-98\n:.... - For customer this is very bad, because they have ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Increase the supported number of independent and dependent filesets x 10

10000 dependent fileset and 1000 independent filesets are not enough for some systems.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Allow for bulk add of mmces addresses in node-affinity

We have found that for deployments of 16 or more CES nodes that node-affinity mode is the most predictive and stable, the challenge is in deployment time. In balanced mode all of the addresses can be deployed in 1-2 minutes. With 32 CES nodes runn...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future 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...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 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.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

add a default editor to the mmeditacl command

Currently there is no built-in editor for the command mmeditacl. However, there is a built-in editor for the command mmedquota. This is a request to add a built-in editor to the mmeditacl command.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Make usage time series information available via the Spectrum Scale API

The Spectrum Scale Management GUI has time series information available for GPFS file systems and filesets. This information includes (but is not limited to) the change in block usage (i.e. how much space used) and change in inode usage. However t...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 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 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

one Spectrum Scale GUI monitors multiple ESS clusters

PingAn deployed several ESS clusters in China/Beijing and China/Shanghai. So far, they have to login different GUI web to monitor different clusters. PingAn raised the request for one Spectrum Scale GUI to monitor multiple ESS clusters so that the...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 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...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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