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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    About Alarms

    The client's filesystem space is 93% used gpfs sent an alarm pool-data_high_error through gui-snmp trip on October 20, which was notified to the client in time through the client's alarm platform, but the current administrator did not deal with it...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    GPFS supports the dirsync mount option

    Our bussinuss architure is like FuseClient --> FileServer(GPFS NativeClient)-->GPFS. IBM GPFS does not support dirsync mount option in Linux. GPFS Native Client will save the dir meta changes(create/mknod/link/unlink/rename...) in cache. The...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    File sync tools and Spectrum Scale permissions

    Copying data in Spectrum Scale, especially from external sources, can be problematic at times due to the way permissions work. This is particularly a problem when data needs to be synced through time in preparation for cutting over from a new exte...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 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 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    support filesystem metadata migration to 4K-based NSDs

    Provide a transparent (e.g. no downtime) mechanism to introduce NSDv2 4k-aligned metadata NSDs into filesystems created with NSDv1 format NSDs.
    about 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    CES IP - bulk add of mmces addresses in node-affinity

    We have found that for deployments of 16 or more CES nodes that node-affinity mode is the most predictive and stable, the challenge is in deployment time. In balanced mode all of the addresses can be deployed in 1-2 minutes. With 32 CES nodes runn...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    API to return changed blocks since last backup

    While Spectrum Scale synergy with Spectrum Protect (TSM) is great and completely adapted to the backup of a file system that is hosting a very large number of files (basically used as a file server) that are added every day and some of them being ...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Expand mmrsync to accept filelist

    mmrsync accepts the filenames only as parameters. Extend it to also accept a filename containing a list of files to sync.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Prioritization of mmrestripefs -r block rebuilds

    When a FPO mmrestripefs -r kicks off it should prioritize rebuilding blocks that have 2 duplicates missing over blocks that only have one duplicate missing.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Media read error to trigger auto rewrite

    When a media read error is reported by a device a read from another replica should be followed by a rewrite to the original device to allow the devices LBA to use a different part of the device.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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