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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    DeferredDeletion per INODE filespace

    When an user deletes his files in a GPFS file system the inodes are freed directly, but for the data blocks an DeferredDeletion process is triggered which will delete the related data blocks in a background process. The quota usage of this user/gr...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Free unused dynamic heap memory

    The GPFS memory footprint is defined by- pagepool- shared memory pool- heap- stack of all threads (512KB per GPFS thread, usually the stack size is not an issue) "pagepool" and "shared memory pool" are configurable, but no parameter in GPFS to con...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    ECE - Support for SEDs

    Support the use of SEDs for storage with ECE, either with locally managed keys, centrally managed keys, or ideally, both
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

    Tool to Monitor IO per application from client nodes.

    Tool to Monitor IO per application from client nodes. Similar to mmdiag –iohist, or better - output json to be gathered by api's.Monitor the block-size read/write per applicationMonitor the IO pattern per application – rand/read/seq etc.Monitor pa...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Isolate File sets per node, similar to how we could isolate NFS mounts by directories.

    As of now, there are 2 workarounds.Manage ACLs for PBs of storage, which gets increasingly complex to manage.2. Create multiple small file systems of few terabytes. Creating small files systems just to mount them differently makes it very ineffici...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    support for runnign VMs in GPFS (see TS003291090)

    See TS003291090 If 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. ...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

    inode number limit

    Need to restrict the inode number to be lower than 2^32 . If its greater than that, 32 bit applications are failing complaining file not found.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Auto-cleanup /tmp/mmfs

    Over time /tmp/mmfs fills up will diagnostic data from gpfs.snap. Provide a facility to cleanup those files automatically based on age.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 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...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    AFM immutable file support

    Need to be able to make files immutable in a home fileset for AFM in order to protect data from ransomware, data will be created at the cache site (single-writer) and transferred to the home site using AFM, data are to be retained at the home site...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

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