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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

Able to do mmcallback to stop the GPFS event, exemple prevent to unmount filesystems if services are still running

It would be nice to be able to configure a mmcallback in Spectrum Scale where the return code of the command run by the callback could stop the GPFS event. Actually, from the IBM documentation, GPFS can make 3 differents things in a mmcallback : -...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

mmnetverify fails ungracefully when --target-node is Windows node

When run from Scale node on x86 RHEL 7.3 (x86), mmnetverify fails ungracefully when --target-node is a Windows node.Moreover, it fails inconsistently when used with the node's "Scale" interface vs. the Admin node name, providing additional confusion.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Is a defect

selective objectizer feature needed

In unfied file and object env, there is some cases that ibmobjectizer should have an option to run only some selective filesets or containers to avoid sudden additional heavy workload due to ibmobjectizer run.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

Support for snapshot recall in AFM cache

Currently, if a file is evicted from an AFM cache fileset, the snapshot file of the evicted file become zeros. Is there a roadmap to support fetching data from home when reading an evicted snapshot file in AFM cache cluster? This feature would be ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

On the Storage Scale Server (SSS) formerly ESS, the "mmlsnsd" command should show the NSD disk primary/secondary server relationship as previously done and does so for Spectrum Scale on SANs and Lenovo DSS.

Having "mmlsnsd" display the NSD disk data path ownership (primary/secondary server relationships) allows customers to balance disk assignments. In addition, Lenovo DSS does this already and customers migrating from Lenovo , like MorganStanley, ha...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Future consideration

Request to support kernel version 5.4.15.x

Our OEM parnter Inspur Electronic Information were resold many ECE cluster to their customers. One of key issue is limited kernel supported in Storage Scale. Their customer need flexible support policy to kernel version. Their customer need to use...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

nfsv4 kerberized solution

We would like a solution to get the better performance and security of NFSv4 in a kerberized environment. This solution is to be supported in IBM Spectrum Scale protocol nodes.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

Allow no lock control option on specific protocol exports

Some workloads do not need ensuring lock and an offering if parallel access will be needed or not (specially for CIFS). So for some workloads CTDB would not necessarily be used on all exports
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

Mirror snapshots to another cluster as a destination snapshot

Ability to mirror a snapshot to a remote cluster - as a snapshot.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 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.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

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