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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    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 11 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.
    over 11 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 11 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
    over 11 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.
    over 11 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Option to disable HSM recalls into snapshots created for a SOBAR backup

    This RFE addresses an issue with SOBAR regarding HSM and GPFS snapshots.In a GPFS SOBAR procedure, GPFS snapshots are used to freeze the file system temporarily for an image backup. They are NOT used to preserve user data.For this reason and for a...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    Improve fragment allocation when very large number of NSDs and allocation regions.

    Current fragment allocation behavior for small files or shrink-to-fit operation looks only on the region's local list. If nothing fits it allocates a full block for the small file. This causes a problem when billions of small files are created in ...
    1 day ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Change GPFS to use IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT bind() option

    Change GPFS to use IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT bind() option so so that binds() on sockets meant to be used for a subsequent connect() do not require that there's a totally unused port in the ephemeral port range for the source IP. We got an assert on...
    2 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Enhance Scale ansible toolkit to deploy zimonGrafana Bridge

    Eliminate manual effort to add zimonGrafana Bridge
    7 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Transparent recall of archived VMware VMs from tape via vMotion should work without failure.

    VMware Datastore via NFS is storing data on Scale disk with Storage archive to migrate archived vmdks to tape. The recall process is triggered by a vMotion process but it fails because the files are not recalled yet from tape. If the admin waits a...
    23 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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