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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

    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 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    nsdInlineWriteMax >8K

    Dear developers Please enable feature nsdInlineWriteMax >8K for version 5.0.1.x with RDMA enabled. We are using it for small files writing. It's working for version 4.2.3.x Regards Alexander
    about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Shorten the pending IO time to 5-30s during node expel

    When node in ECE cluster was expelled from cluster, the IO pending time is long as 1-3 minutes. Some of applications failure due to long pending time,especial to OLTP or AI training jobs. Competitors which using traditional dual-controllers mode c...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    Add support for Subject Alternate Name in certificate request through the GUI.

    Chrome 58 and above now checks for the presence of the Subject Alternate Name in the certificate. If it isn't found, the certificate is deemed to be insecure or broken. The new GUI certificate request feature should ask the user for the SAN name d...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Samba "hide unreadable = root_only" to boost performance

    In most cases we need Samba's "hide unreadable" only on root directory of an smb export. A switch to enable "hide unreadable" only for the export dir's content and not for the whole subtree should significantly improve performance.
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Make mmsdrrestore command able to restore Zimon configuration files

    The files /opt/IBM/zimon/ZIMonCollector.cfg and /opt/IBM/zimon/ZIMonSensors.cfg are needed for the pmcollector and pmsensors daemons.When a node is re-installed we use the mmsdrrestore command to restore the GPFS node configuration. Unfortunately ...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Check pool usage in units of "fileset"

    My client company is a customer who uses "fileset" in a wide variety.The customer is using "ess3200" and "ess5000" divided into "system pool" and "data1 pool".The customer has transferred the data from "system pool" in "fileset" to "data1 pool".Ho...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 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...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    RDMA场景下网卡存算分离

    计算节点有两种RDMA网卡：mlx_1和mlx_2 存储节点有四张RDMA网卡：mlx_1 mlx_2 mlx_3 mlx_4 我们想实现这么一种组网： （1）计算节点<->存储节点只使用mlx_1和mlx_2 （2）存储节点<->存储节点（pdisk client->pdisk server）只使用mlx_3和mlx_4
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

    Support APT repository to support storage scale deployment on UBUNTU through open source ansible scale roles.

    Support Local existing APT repository to support storage scale deployment on UBUNTU through open source ansible scale roles.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

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