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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Provide a xattr namespace for xattrs that should disappear once file changes

It would be useful to be able to set xattrs on files that get invalidated once the file changes. F.ex. we could set a user.valid.backup attribute to indicate that the file has been backed up, and a user.valid.checksum to store a checksum of the fi...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Enable AWS STS support

Currently generating a temporary token is associated to an object or file. In the case of many thousands of files we would prefer STS which would allow us to create temporary Sessions associated to a bucket that can be used to upload, via S3 many ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Support more than 15 remote clusters with fileset access control

Customer needs strict separation of filesets accessible on different compute clusters, and want to utilize RFAC to control what view each of the compute clusters has access to in the file system. Customer was then surprised when they hit the limit...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

CES NFS - extended attributes

Storage Scale (GPFS) does support extended attributes for the users like: > getfattr -d stephan.txt > md5sum stephan.txt 041ad89a0dc0772f384f8d1bf4ddff4b stephan.txt > setfattr -n user.md5 -v 041ad89a0dc0772f384f8d1bf4ddff4b stephan.txt &...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Suppression of ro BR token when reading at RO mode

A BR token is used to keep cache coherency of data across nodes. We experienced that 'ro BR' token is requested by each node even other nodes read the same rage of data at the same time. Unless the range is never changed by all nodes, getting of r...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

CES-S3 Glacier Support for Spectrum Archive managed Scale Cluster

Enhancement of using our implemented solution on base of ESS, Storage Scale and Storage Archive environments.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

CES NFS - SLES as NFS Client on IBM Power Platform

Many SAP Customers in Europe are running SLES for their HANA DB Workload on IBM Power Systems. Due to the current search for software that offers the customer HA cluster NFS (cNFS) server functionality, Spectrum Scale is an ideal solution. But to...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Preview of mmreclaimspace for a determinate threshold

The idea is to have a preview of the mmreclaimspace without actually running it to have an idea of how much space will be recovered by a certain threshold. This can be interesting due to the lower the threshold is, the more impacte in performance ...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Protocols - S3: REST API for mms3 commands

Currently a REST API call to create a new S3 user account is missing, This is needed for several client applications. The AWS REST API and client provides this function which is currently used by a client application... workaround to create user a...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

CES Support for L3 BGP Network

Currently CES only supports Layer 2 networks where there is a specific subnet such as 192.168.20.0/24 where the virtual IP (VIP) addresses for CES would get assigned to an interface such as eth0 on a node. This does NOT work with Layer 3 networks ...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted