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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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user/role based permission control in Spectrum Scale

So far, in Spectrum Scale, all user management is done by OS, e.g. by /etc/passwd, by AD or LDAP. However, for administration, there is only one role: the user root or the common user with sudo permission. No matter it's the user root, or it's the...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

File System Level virtualization

the customer created different gpfs file systems for different purpose, e.g. file system 1 for data archive of business department A, file system 2 for data archive of business department B, file system 3 for data archive of business department C....
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

[BDA] Hadoop transparency, Support for native Ranger encryption

Moving in to container based workloads we see many use cases for SCALE integration in to Hadoop. At the moment we are missing one critical functionality and that is the use of object based encryption trough Hortonworks Ranger with Scale Transparen...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Multiple AD servers for Scale CES

Currently, Spectrum Scale CES only supports the addition of a single AD server for SMB authentication. We have encountered a couple of events where a communication issue with that DC results in auth services on the CES node(s) going offline, requi...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 8 Delivered

Increase granularity of per-client attributes to per-filesystem (or per-fileset?)

There are several settings in Spectrum Scale which have a per-client scope which could benefit from having per-filesystem scope (or a per-filesystem, per-client scope). Of these, we are primarily interested in flushOnClose becoming more granular (...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Add an ILM policy attribute to indicate if file data is stored in the metadata inode

The ILM is a fantastic powerful tool where it is possible to search or query for items in the file system such as empty directories, attached ACLs, extended attributes etc but there is no easy definitive way of querying if a data file resides in t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Rename kafka and zookeeper resources for LWE to avoid conflicts with existing distro/user packages

GPFS provides installations for apache kafka and zookeeper software are part of mmmsgqueue/LWE/filesystem audit functionality. Existing user environments which employ tools which rely on access to zookeeper, using standard provided library interfa...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Support overlapping idmap ranges

mmuserauth --ldapmap-domains refuses to create a configuration where the (uid) range values of multiple domains overlap - for understandable reasons. However, in complex and historically grown environments, modifying existing accounts to accommoda...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

GPFS 5.0 CES NFS show NFS Clients which actually mount the exported filesystem (like Linux showmount)

We use Spectrum Scale Protocols 5 with NFS Ganesha.When exporting a filesystem to several NFS Clients (e. g. * or other), we could not see which NFS Client actually mount the exported filesystem.In Kernel based NFS you can use the command "showmou...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

support hole punching

We're seeing requests for customers running Commvault that they need support for hole punching to free up space in already allocated files. Please support deallocating space in files trhough the FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE and FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE flags o...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

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