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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

    GPFS for Linux aarch64

    Publish GPFS / Spectrum Scale for Linux on aarch64 aarch64 is supported by all Linux Versions (Ubuntu, Suse, Redhat) but not by gpfs
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    support for runnign VMs in GPFS (see TS003291090)

    See TS003291090If 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.The...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

    Spectrum Scale can't prioritize small I/O over Serial data block

    Spectrum Scale can't prioritize small I/O over Serial data block. A data transfer being done by one customer does work fast but the other user can't even ls specifics directories.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    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 ...
    about 12 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 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Fully decompress files on read

    Allow a flag to be set on a file, fileset or filesystem to have files fully decompress on read.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 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.
    about 12 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Hierarchical fileset quotas option

    Add an option to mmcrfileset and/or mmchfileset where you can specify whether or not you want the fileset quota usage of all child filesets to "roll up" and be applied to quotas of any/all of their parent filesets. This probably makes the most sen...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Enhance information provided in case of errors flushing file data from pagepool to persistent storage

    In case of failures in that area, file data may be corrupted. Providing the information which files are affected omits the effort of manually identifying them by expensive scans of the file system.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    CTDB recovery timeout improvement

    Multiple protocol nodes are stuck in wait state when pn01 is selected to be the master recovery causing loss of access of the whole cluster. However pn01 is hung and stuck due to kernel oops issue. After pn01 is rebooted and no GPFS running, pn03 ...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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