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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Describe how to install/upgrade purchased DAE/DME license files when first using Spectrum Scale Developer Edition

Client wants to install Spectrum Scale Developer Edition today while waiting to receive their DME licenses. Requesting documentation which describes how to install/upgrade purchased DAE/DME license files when Spectrum Scale Developer Edition is cu...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Improve 'mmvdisk filesystem delete' behavior

When deleting a vdisk set from a filesystem the command is: mmvdisk filesystem delete --file-system udata --vdisk-set VS2It responds with:mmvdisk: This will run the GPFS mmdeldisk command on file system 'udata'But it does NOT say what it is going ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

allow group pools to be used as the DEFAULT placement policy

If the default placement policy. If a disk pool is allowed as the default rule there should never be a "no free space error" when attempting to write a new file.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Scale IP balancing code with NFS and Samba

Nfs crash on protocol nodes brings down samba with ces root. "While waiting for the abrt trigger, please investigate why NFS crashes bring down Samba. There are cases that NFS crashes do not bring down Samba in the past.
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

NSD client IO should have a time-out and a retry tunable per filesystem (JUMP Trading LLC)

The current Spectrum Scale configuration does not give the customer the ability to provide a timeout or retry values to NSD client IO. Since these tuning parameters do not exist, this can result in hung IOs or unexpected IO errors when the NSD ser...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Tools or self tune mechanisms for troubleshooting

Customers would like to have tools that would allow them to analyze our diagnostic information so they could more quickly determine what was wrong with the system and try to correct it (i.e. Self tune based on the latency and throughput of the net...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Prioritization of mmrestripefs -r block rebuilds

When a FPO mmrestripefs -r kicks off it should prioritize rebuilding blocks that have 2 duplicates missing over blocks that only have one duplicate missing.
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Media read error to trigger auto rewrite

When a media read error is reported by a device a read from another replica should be followed by a rewrite to the original device to allow the devices LBA to use a different part of the device.
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Option to avoid down drives

Option: when a device is down allows writes to blocks on the device to go to a different device rather than create a missed update. This protects the file system from large numbers of missed update blocks and retains full replica count.
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Allow for separation of client services from storage services

Allow for the optional separation of the gpfs mmfsd process into a client process mmfscd independent of the gpfs storage process mmfssd. When something goes wrong with I/O subsystem in one node the applications on that node should still be able to...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

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