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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Fast approximate df for filesets

mmlsfileset df calculations are slow and causes high load on a server.  A fast approximate filesetdf (alike mmlsquota) is needed.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Parallelise mmgetpdisktopology checks

In a recent install carried out by an IBM engineer several steps repeately invoked mmgetpdisktopology to check drive attributes. This queries each drive one by one which each drive query taking around just over a second. These were seen in the for...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

support for chown/chgrp via API + policy engine

Add API calls for the purpose of changing file/directory ownership. This could also then be exposed in the policy engine.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Support for mmrquotad to forward quota information from a remote AFM filesystem

When using a solution based on AFM to share a GPFS cluster among different sites, the AFM caches are the ones exposed (e.g. mounted by NFS) to servers on the local sites. The available version of mmrquotad daemon (which dates from 2010) is able to...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Spectrum scale - Read only dos attribute behavior on chmod 444/644

mobileye recently migrated from SONAS to scale . IBM approved for the SOANS system RPQ for "read only dos attributes on chmod 444/666. Mobileye are asking for the same RPQ on scale . attached the documentation approval for SONAS.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Support Debian 9 with ISS 4 and 5

Support Spectrum Scale on Debian 8 and later for ISS 4.2.3 and 5.0.0 and later.
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

GPFS Support in Linux for DataStage binaries

Too many processes/threads executing mmap() functions accessing executable library functions which results in an increase in GPFS lock contention
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

SMB Error Message handling changes

When a user tries to delete a folder via SMB (Windows explorer) served out from a protocol node while another user has an open file in the folder, the action completes without an error being posted that another user has a file open within the fold...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

SNMP 64 bit counters + CIM support

Proper 64 bit counters. Obtaining correct SNMP values (E.G. for pool sizes) is not as simple as it should be.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

AFM queue control

Complete control over the order of each prefetch (analogy: priority WAN transfer queue for GPFS)
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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