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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Report fragmentation of an specific file in a Scale filesystem

We would like to report the fragmentation of a single (of course large) file in the Spectrum Scale filesystem.Not mmdefragfs (This command only reports the fragmentation of the complete filesystem.) .You can compare it to the Linux command "filefr...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

modify mmsetquota to have --reset option

We have received the subject pmr here in Spectrum Scale Level2. I read the request and It seems that customer is requesting a function similar to "mmedquota -t <fileset> --reset" ?? --resetWith this option, when grace time is modified, all r...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Need scalable way to determine if remote file system is mountable (JUMP Trading LLC)

The `mmlsfs` command is used to determine if a node is able to mount a remote file system as part of our systemd Spectrum Scale service startup scripts. However the `mmlsfs` command appears to communicate back to the Cluster Manager node in order ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Addition of nodes in Spectrum Scale cluster without checking for GPFS software or node availability

Current the `mmaddnode` command requires that the node be available and that the GPFS software installed on the node matches the current cluster configuration. This does not allow us to add nodes that are not currently available and our system aut...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale automatic kernel modules

The technology is there to make this happen, especially if using Enterprise distributions such as Red Hat or Suse. You can also throw Ubuntu to some extent in the mix as they don't apply kAPI breaking changes very often. Our customer was successfu...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Net-SNMP support is required for GPFS monitoring for AIX

System: IBM Spectrum ScaleActor: CustomerIBM Spectrum Scale is a flexible software-defined storage that can be deployed as high performance file storage or a cost optimized large-scale content repository. Description: Our customer would like to mo...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

GPFS as gateway for different storage system

Michael Daubman and Lisa visited CMA(China Meteorological Administration). in the meeting, CMA raised this requirement CMA has multiple GPFS cluster and they also have different NAS storage system from different vendors. usually, they will set up ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

SpectrumScale should be able to natively mount at any point in the name space of a filesystem using GPFS client

GPFS/SpectrumScale using the native GPFS client cannot mount at any location in a filesystem in a multi-tenanted environment in any way other than at the root level, exposing the entire filesystem to a client. GPFS should ideally offer the ability...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Enable ESS and Scale GUI option to enter an editable text box or a drop-down list

Add the ability, in the ESS and Spectrum Scale GUIs to be settable as a GUI login default an editable text box or a drop-down list for searching files. For example, add a search field option to search, export and apply filter for counting differen...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

RFE: Allow file system ?-n? attribute to be changed

When a Spectrum Scale file system is created, several parameters must be specified that can not be changed after the fact. One of these is the “-n” parameter giving an estimate of the number of systems that will be mounting a file system, directly...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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