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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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GPFS FPO weighting algorithms

for GPFS FPO, all NSDs within a failure group have the same weighting regardless of the number of disks or characteristics of those disks, Please can you add a feature to enable weighting to be applied. for example if one FG only contains 5 NSDs a...
about 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

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

OSX 10.8+ client : GPFS protocol over IP

Performance improvements over NFS3/4 and SMB2
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 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
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Globally accessible and coherent cache

A cached block is cached on all nodes and hence accessible from all nodes
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

NDMP support in native GPFS

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

[BDA] Cache control via runtime policy engine

If caching could be controlled by the policy engine, the user could intelligently control that valuable resource with respect to their known workloads / data types.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Need to be able to trace GPFS with small overhead

The available trace feature of GPFS requires lots of system resource, to be able to enable such trace on a production system, a light weight trace option is required.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

GPFS filespace update

GPFS runs the mmbackup which does not update the backup start and backup end parameters on the tsm client node. This parameter is updated when a regular node runs a backup. The backup for a GPFS node runs a selected backup and does not update the ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

AFM support for immutable and appendOnly mode in GPFS

The customer requests a design change because there is a valid use case where they require setting files to immutable or appendonnly on the IW cache (to prevent tampering of human genome information stored in such files) which means that the files...
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

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