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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Reflink/ficlone support

reflink/ficlone is a system call for making clones of files, where all data blocks is initially shared, and changes are then done through copy-on-write/redirect-on-write. This can be done through "cp --reflink", or IOCTL_FICLONERANGE system call. ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale Management API does not distinguish between NFSv4 and POSIX ACLs

When using the GET ACL request https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_5.0.3/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r03.doc/bl1adm_apiv2getfilesystemacl.htm It _always_ reports the ACL is of the NFSv4 type, even if the ACL is POSIX This is false i...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Eliminate manual recompiles of gpfs.gplbin due to kernel changes

It should not be necessary for customers to manually recompile gpfs.gplbin every time the kernel is updated. Two possible approaches seem to be: * kmod, which would remove the need to recompile the module as long as the kABI remains stable. kABI-t...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Planned for future release

Report fragmentation of an specific file in a Scale filesystem

We would like to report the fragmentation of a single (of course large) file in the Spectrum Scale filesystem.Not mmdefragfs (This command only reports the fragmentation of the complete filesystem.) .You can compare it to the Linux command "filefr...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Secure Boot for IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA – A Necessity for Secure Cloud Infrastructures

1. Problem Statement and Urgency Current Requirement to Disable Secure Boot: IBM Spectrum Scale currently requires Secure Boot to be disabled to run on OpenShift. However, in modern cloud environments, especially in security-critical infrastructur...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Storage Scale performance is extremely sensitive to network and backend latency, there must be a mechanism to monitor those critical KPI

It would help both system administrator and IBM Support to be able to quickly identify the key issue and be able to isolate the bottleneck to address critical performance issues.
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Not under consideration

Capacity quota support for HSM managed file systems

We have two storage scale file systems which are HSM managed using Spectrum Protect for space Management. In total we are storing ~40 PB user data on tape here. Each group has been granted an amount of files and capacity for all our file systems. ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale GPFS client running on z/OS

Customer desires to speed up time to insights from their systems of record on z/OS.
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Add GPFS Fileset quota metrics/monitoring

Product: Spectrum Scale quota monitoring (specially for filesets) We use GPFS fileset quota. These fileset quota is only monitored internally by the GPFS GUI - if the GPFS GUI is installed. If the fileset quota exceeded, the system will give you n...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

ARM Support in Spectrum Scale

The Jülich Supercompting Centre is running HPC compute resources for the European Science community. The storage solution is based of a central Spectrum Scale storage cluster which is mounted on ~8.000 compute nodes using GPFS remote cluster mount...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release