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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Improve ACL management in Spectrum Scale

    Currently, ACL management in Scale is overly difficult. For instance, the mmputacl command requires the entire ACL to be reapplied, rather than just having the ability to add, delete, or modify existing entries. Additionally, inheritance does not ...
    almost 7 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 &...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Protocols - S3: optional directory path for S3 CreateBucket

    We would like to see the flag (--filesystemPath) from the mms3 command on the protocol nodes implemented in the actual API. We have teams that utilize the s3 api that we would like to be able to have them specify the path themselves instead of hav...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Command to force Dynamic Pagepool to shrink to minimum size

    When utilizing the dynamic pagepool during IO operations, the pagepool automatically expands until possibly reaching its maximum allocated size. It then remains at that level, even after the IO operations have completed, until additional memory (m...
    12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Node Designation/Role Listed in mmlscluster

    Any node designation that is possible with the mmchnode command should be listed in the output of mmlscluster for that specific node. This will provide a quality of life improvement when figuring out exactly which node is serving which purpose. Fo...
    12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Add performance monitoring for fileset and storage pool per client node

    When a storage pool or fileset is close to being filled up, it is possible to identify which client node is exerting the most write pressure through performance monitoring. This allows the relevant business unit to be notified to make adjustments.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    document privateSubnetOverride and make it switchable without shutting doen the whole cluster

    This helps in adding (additional) high performance networks to existing clusters
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Support for Overlay-FS for disk that are provisioned per CNSA/Storage Scale

    We want to use Storage Scale with the CNSA-Implementation also with the requirement to use this for the Image-Building Process like BUILDKIT. But this doesnt work today becouse of missing Overlay-FS Support. The benefit will be to use more then on...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    AFM-COS configuration option for proxy servers

    At the moment you cannot configure AFM-COS to use an explizit http(s) proxy server to connect to an external S3 storage.Please also add proxy support to AFM-COS as it is already available for the TCT or call home features.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    User unable to query fileset if permissions are root as owner and user as group

    It is not unusual for user directories permissions to be set where root is the owner and the user is the group for operational reasons. However this leads to the situation where user have a degraded level of service as they cannot query their file...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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