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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Spectrum Scale ECE - Need quota feature to support limiting the resource usage on different storage pools

In more and more projects, we are delivering GPFS file systems with multiple storage pools for teiring. And our customers keep asking for quota limitation of each user/group/fileset on different storage pools, because different pools have differen...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Raise number of dependent Filesets

A customer wants to implement per directory quota. The maximum number of 10000 dependent filesets per file system is a limitation for introducing per directory quota.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

gpfsperf script improvements

Though gpfsperf is a sample script, it needs improvements so that the customer local file does not get filled and cause gpfs issues: - Indicate in the read me file that the local tmp file needs to large enough for the filesize to be tested - Indic...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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

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

Make mmclone permissions work like cp

Currently, a file clone created with mmclone always has its group owner set to the primary gid of the creating process, without regard to the setgid bit of the containing directory, and without regard to the group owner of the original file. Other...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Make mmclone permissions work like cp

Currently, a file clone created with mmclone always has its group owner set to the primary gid of the creating process, without regard to the setgid bit of the containing directory, and without regard to the group owner of the original file. Other...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future 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

Enhance Installation Toolkit Support for Cluster with active usesudowrapper configuration

We are planing to Implement saveguard vault design with use of saveguard snapshots. One requirement here the cluster must use sudowrapper as a prerequisite to work and beeing secure.The ansible installationtoolkit has currently no support for sudo...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 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