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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Modification of smb.conf to prevent vulnerability

The customer has to set 'server signing=mandatory' in smb.conf to prevent vulnerability.https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/887429http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731957.aspxhttp://www.nessus.org/u?74b80723http://www.samba.org/samba...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Pre-occupy system resource for GPFS on nodes

Since GPFS is so critical, any standard way (from GPFS engineering or support) to configure GPFS on each node (mgmt., NSD, FPO and clients) to pre-occupy certain amount of memory and no other processes can use. I know that RHEL cgroup may be a goo...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

IBM CES Object: Long lasting Swift transfers fail if Keystone token expires

IBM CES Object: Long lasting Swift uploads fail if Keystone token expires during the transfer.This applies to big files which are segmented (by the user, or by the default configuration), and to recursive uploads of directory trees.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale DMAPI Locking issues

mmap calls are allowed against files where we have acquired DM_RIGHT_EXCLUSIVE, as long as the handle used for mmap was opened before the exclusive right was acquired. Acquiring DM_RIGHT_EXCLUSIVE access on a file with current active mmaps succeed...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Add option to mmlsfileset to list only independent or dependent filesets

mmlsfileset does not have a direct way to list dependedent or independent filesets. While is possible wrapping out the output of mmlsfileset -L/-Y to then pass it to mmcrsnapshot so only quiescence the IO once. I wonder if it is possible to add --...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale Config Changes in GUI

Provide the ability for the Spectrum Scale GUI to show and make changes to the GPFS config parameters and provide recommendations to nodes and nodeclasses in the GUI. A tuning page would check the configuration of nodes and nodeclasses and allow f...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Provie a button or tab that exposes API calls that would have resulted in the previous GUI activity.

The command line actions used are shown when a GUI action is completed, but this does not always map to a specific API call or sequence of API calls. It would be helpful for those trying to move to automated workflows to see what the API call woul...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

Time Machine over SMB

Since the last OSX release, Apple has deprecated they're "AFP" protocol and want to use SMB for everything, TimeMachine included.In order to have a SMB share working with TimeMachine, it need to complain some specs. Here are the specs: https://dev...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Modify Spectrum scale GUI theme/layout to avoid security finding

Security findings: For the Wireless, open a ticket with the vendor to determine how to change the theme or layout of the web/gpfs login page and/or a feature request to change layout due to graphics definitions in the HTML matching wireless access...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale Container Storage Interface Driver compatibility rhel 7.4

My environment is as follows：gpfs version：Spectrum_Scale_Data_Access-5.1.0.2-x86_64-Linux-installCSI version：IBM Spectrum Scale Container Storage Interface Driver 2.1.0Kubernetes version ：1.19.3 https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY_C...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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