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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Add support to api calls for not following symlinks

It would be useful if the GPFS api commands that accept a filesystem path as an argument could support an optional flag such that if the final component of the path is a symbolic link the link is not followed. The goal is to be able to perform an ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale integration with HyperV

I have a customer which is pure Microsoft oriented. I wanted to sell them File storage and would like to use Spectrum Scale. As whole project will quite huge I would like to use as much of their infrastructure as it is possibly. I would like to us...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

FTP and HTTP CES support

Support FTP and HTTP access on CES protocol nodes.
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Conseil Departemental de la Gironde

Our Client want to delete directory from backup, the directory is not deleted with the command del backup even for active / inactive. Review the documentation and the data knowledge : It is not possible to delete the directories in the GUI.
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Enable ESS and Scale GUI option to enter and display decimal

Add the ability, in the ESS and Spectrum Scale GUIs, to show storage data in decimal (base 10) rather than binary (base 2). For example, in form fields and pull-downs, and in displays of capacities (total, used, free, etc.), allow "4 TB" to mean 4...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Sensors Install Symlink behavior change (avoid overwrite)

Installing the gpfs sensor package will result in zimon been installed under /opt/IBM/zimon. In case /opt already exists this migthresult in problems, in our case it was a symlink to the gpfs filesystem which was silently deleted. This was seen wi...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Improvement to Distributed Lock Manager (DLM) for shared files.

Request for an improved DLM mechanism when leveraging a scale out protocole node approach to better handle Locking broadcasting overhead for "shared to all" files and folder.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Add support for exporting remotely mounted GPFS filesystems with ganesha via CES

The CES ganesha nfs server "allows" a remotely mounted GPFS filesystem to be exported, but doing so results in incorrect cache behavior. Ganesha maintains its own inode cache, but cache invalidation doesn't work correctly for remotefs filesystems....
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Dockers utilization for Spectrum Scale processes

Scale best practices recommends to have separate servers for Scale servers and Protocol Nodes. In ESS also is not supported to include Protocol Nodes inside the ESS nodes due to GNR resource contention. This implies to have almost four servers for...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Increase independent filespace limit

AFM, fileset snapshots and some other features can only be used with independent filesets. Thus GPFS customers are advised to prefer them over dependent filesets.But GPFS has a hardcoded limit of 1000 independent filesets per filesystem which is t...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

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