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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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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

Add zstd as a compression option

It's great to have lz4 and Z as compression options but it would be nice to additional some additional compression options such as zstd.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

support OS kernel for linux 5.10.135.x86_64

support OS kernel for linux 5.10.135.x86_64
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Cluster Export Services support on AIX

Cluster Export Services are supported only in a Linux environment. I want to use an AIX environment and use AIX servers as SMB, NFS, and Object Protocol nodes.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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

Enhance policy handling to allow ordering of rules

I want to delete dirs and files in a subtree depending on their mtime. Using a policy file I can identify the files and dirs and order them by DIRECTORY_HASH to ensure the correct deletion order from deepest to highest paths. This works falwlessly...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Snapshot directories should be separate mountpoints or snapshotted files should have unique inode numbers

In Linux, files in Spectrum Scale snapshots have the same device id(st_dev) and inode number (st_ino) as their live counterparts. Theyhave the same device because all snapshots in a filesystem are under thesame mountpoint as the live version of th...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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

Smaller CES configuration

CES nodes support a lot of connections - but require excessive amount of memory, even when the amount of connections planned is a lot lower.128 GB as minimum for a node providing both NFS and SMB is way too much.It would be good to have support fo...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Enhancements on Spectrum Scale Installation toolkit to support remote cluster configurations and updates

Currently there are a gap in this toolkit to define remote cluster configs. We know that the code are already available in the open source stuff but not in the offical release of the installer. It should be added to simplify the current manually s...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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