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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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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...
over 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...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

AD with autoID mode to support NFSv4 Kerberos authentication

Need cross platform access (NFS and SMB) in an AD domain where the AD-LDS is not RFC2307 compliant. We need to be able to use AD with autoID mode to support NFSv4 Kerberos authentication. Using the kerberos ticket for IDMAP instead of UID is a use...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

mmaddnode error message enhancement

mmaddnode failed with a "node already belongs to GPFS cluster" error. But the problem ended up being that a reverse DNS lookup of the IP address of the node being added returned the IP address of a node that already belonged to the cluster. Since ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Add the ability for protocol replication to support many:1 replication for shared DR cluster

The request is for support of many:1 replication for protocol cluster replication rather than only the present 1:1 model.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Remove requirement to manually remove / re-add file authentication with mmcesdr

When executing failover, restore or failback, the instructions in Section 16 of the document “IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2: Advanced Administration Guide” clearly states that one must remove and then re-create file authentication on the relevant cluster...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Support for NFSv4 as AFM transport protocol

AFM currently uses NFSv3. NFSv3 is insecure and so mount point access could be gained by spoofing the IP address and a UID. We would like to request the option to alternatively used NFSv4, primary to get AFM through internal audits. This is a medi...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

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.
almost 5 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.
over 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.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

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