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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Parallel AFM cache fileset prefetch controls

Need ability to direct AFM prefetch operation (e.g. mmafmctl <new fs> prefetch -j <cache fileset> --home-inode-file <mmapplypolicy file list from old fs> ) to run multiple threads from a single gateway node in parallel for prefet...
about 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Support for GPFS Immutable Fileset to be used from NFS exports

GPFS 3.5 and higher has built-in capabilities providing the SnapLock function to make files immutable (WORM protected). This function is based on immutable file sets but it not supported. SnapLock essentially allows to make file immutable using st...
about 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

GPFS mmbackup engine enhancement / mmbackup needs to support newline char

Out of several PMRs with this customer it turned out that mmbackup command does not support newline characters (\n) when used in filenames. As example - ....steinerj/ASTest2/ASTest/yolo-98\n:.... - For customer this is very bad, because they have ...
about 10 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.
about 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Mirror snapshots to another cluster as a destination snapshot

Ability to mirror a snapshot to a remote cluster - as a snapshot.
about 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Ability to add and remove parallel threads / nodes to a currently executing policy

Increase or decrease the processing of a running policy on the fly
about 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

NDMP support in native GPFS

GPFS does not natively support NDMP.
about 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

OSX 10.8+ client : GPFS protocol over IP

Performance improvements over NFS3/4 and SMB2
about 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

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

Increase the supported number of independent and dependent filesets x 10

10000 dependent fileset and 1000 independent filesets are not enough for some systems.
about 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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