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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Use transactional write model and issue periodic disk cache flushes

GPFS (at least on Linux) does not attempt to flush the cache of the block devices to which it is writing. It relies on O_DIRECT to bypass host write cache but this does not guarantee data has been flushed to stable media. This RFE requests that GP...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

SNMPv3 support in GPFS GUI

Morgan Stanley is asking for upgrade to SNMPv3 (GPFS GUI alerts)
almost 2 years 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

preallocating space in a file running an AFM cache

preallocating space in a file running an AFM cache isn't supported at present. This is partially documented here:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_4.2.3/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v4r23.doc/bl1ins_afmlimitations.htm At least it men...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Pre-occupy system resource for GPFS on nodes

Since GPFS is so critical, any standard way (from GPFS engineering or support) to configure GPFS on each node (mgmt., NSD, FPO and clients) to pre-occupy certain amount of memory and no other processes can use. I know that RHEL cgroup may be a goo...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

GPFS needs better contol over NSD IOs for mixed devices SSD + SATA

For a cluster that has a mix of SSD and SATA drives for different storage pools the current architecture queues IO to small (64K) and large queues. For the cluster I was examining we saw SSD IOs being blocked by slow SATA IOs on the NSD server for...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Shorten AFM/DR RPO Interval

The current design is that minimal RPO interval is 60 minutes. That is too long and will loss of huge data. Customer expect to set it to 1-5 minutes. 1-5 minutes RPO interval is acceptable in most of scenarios and it can help us to catch up compet...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under 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.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Modify Spectrum scale GUI theme/layout to avoid security finding

Security findings: For the Wireless, open a ticket with the vendor to determine how to change the theme or layout of the web/gpfs login page and/or a feature request to change layout due to graphics definitions in the HTML matching wireless access...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

when the file name is longer then 255 character it does not get copied to the SMB share, in the future version we would like to see a error message, stating the file name is too long "

when a file is not getting copied, end user dont have any clue that file has not been copied from the windows. An error message would tell them to make the file name shorter.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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