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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    GPFS 5.1.9.7 supports ubuntu22.04.1 (kernel: 5.15.0.136)

    Several customers are experiencing OS panics using Ubuntu (5.15.0-72-generic). The GPFS version is 5.1.9.7 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-5.15.y&id=a5ee9fe48fa51a79620b041b27a94a05e7ac75a0 root...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Functionality already exists

    Support both Ubuntu and Redhat upgrades through open source ansible scale roles with same repository

    Support both Local existing APT repository to support storage scale deployment on UBUNTU through open source ansible scale roles, also support Redhat /Sles Yum repository to support storage scale deployment..
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    CES NFS - identify client stale I/O errors

    Following case - TS018623841.Client NFS when working with several NFS clients - each mounting different CES NFS node , loading python modules - get Stale I/O in random steps. 1. Same python is used through the same script.2. We use autofs to mount...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Protocols - S3 Glacier for Storage Protect managed tape libraries

    It seems the feature has been implemented in NooBaa, but Storage Scale still does not officially support the S3 Glacier feature. Without S3 Glacier support, S3 users have no idea that their data has been migrated. This creates challenges for syste...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Future consideration

    Support for "directory swapping" (RENAME_EXCHANGE) on Linux

    I propose adding support for the RENAME_EXCHANGE flag for directory renames in Storage Scale, to enable atomic directory swaps. Linux around kernel v3.15 added the renameat2 syscall which supports the RENAME_EXCHANGE flag to atomically swap two di...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    CHTASK to change task period at Scale GUI is not persistent

    CHTASK to change task period at Scale GUI is not persistent. In order to improve their monitoring integration with Grafana, client needs to shorten the frequency of some GUI tasks . I used the /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/chtask <task> --period <...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    mmbackup: Backup extended acls separately to eliminate "updated" backup

    mmbackup should generate a database of file/dir extended acls and back up such database so that TSM can be run with the SKIPACL option enabled. When the only change to a file is its extended acl or permissions, it is a waste of resources having to...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Protocols - S3: subnet restrictions in S3 bucket policies

    One of our ESS clusters stores highly sensitive data for around two thousand projects that needs to be kept strictly separate between projects, so we neeed the possibility to add subnet-requirements to buckets for proper data separation, like we c...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Real time ransomware detection for IBM Storage Scale file systems and filesets

    IBM Storage Scale environment we need the capability for real-time ransomware detection. We use immutable snapshots for file systems and fileset already. Real-time ransomware detection gives us the ability to determine the last good immutable snap...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    RDMA场景下网卡存算分离

    计算节点有两种RDMA网卡：mlx_1和mlx_2 存储节点有四张RDMA网卡：mlx_1 mlx_2 mlx_3 mlx_4 我们想实现这么一种组网： （1）计算节点<->存储节点只使用mlx_1和mlx_2 （2）存储节点<->存储节点（pdisk client->pdisk server）只使用mlx_3和mlx_4
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

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