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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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inode number limit

Need to restrict the inode number to be lower than 2^32 . If its greater than that, 32 bit applications are failing complaining file not found.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Option to mount the file system with the root being as a subdirectory

Control over where GPFS mounts the 'root' (or perhaps fakeroot) of a GPFS file system in order to preserve file paths across different topologies.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

mmfsck -P poolname

Checking a file system with multiple pools means results in a check of the entire metadata for the file system when each pool is checked.  Not optimal.  Check individual pools instead.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Pool placement based on path

Ability to place data into a pool based on the directory location of the data.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Ability to flush / clear the cache (not to disk)

The cache on a node should be able to be cleared without unmounting and remounting the file system
almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Management and control of GPFS disk area and Tape Quota

<Requirement>GPFS fileset quota can control not only for on the disk, but also on the tape with LTFS EE.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Avoid HSM recalls into GPFS snapshots when files are deleted in the live FS

When a migrated file is part of a GPFS snapshot and the file is deleted, the Tivoli HSM client is sent a DMAPI event and recalls the file into the snapshot..This behaviour is undesired especially in SOBAR usage scenarios (see Use Case below).Inste...
about 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

eviction wishes

it would be really nice if: - there was a dry-run mode for mmafmctl evict that just generated output or a logfile of what it would have evicted there was an easy way to:- limit evictions to a specified pool- specifiy a pool safelimit instead of a ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

authentication CLI supports overlapping IDs

The Samba 4.5.15 in Spectrum Scale 4.2.3.7 supports the overlapping IDsusing the following command: mmuserauth service create --data-access-method file --type ad --serversnam.domain.com --user-name AS --netbios-name <hostname>--unixmap-domai...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 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...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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