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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Add quota logging capability to keep overall quota accounting consistent

    For performance, nowadays, most of quota information is stored and updated in memory. Then, it will be synced back to disk in an asynchronous way later. However, there isn't a recovery mechanism for GPFS quota in abnormal situations. These can mak...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 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...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 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...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    CES support on SLES 12 SP3 Little Endian

    Recompile the CES packages to support SLES 12 SP3 on Power 8 and newer processors. There is already support in place for RHEL, but some customers are using SLES as their primary OS primarily due to SAP Hana installations and there is no support fo...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under 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...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    'mmdf Device -h' for Human Readable Output

    I'm used to do 'df -h' on linux operating systems to get human readable output. With 'mmdf' I have to use 'mmdf Device --block-size=auto' for human readable output, which is a bit unhandy for me. My suggestion is, to invent 'mmdf device -h' for hu...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Update the mmexpelnode command to accept a nodelist file for the "-N" option

    During file system issues in a NSD Server Cluster it is sometimes required to expel all nodes from remote clusters so that file system recovery can be preformed. Shutting down or stopping GPFS on remote clusters takes too much time with very large...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Update the mmexpelnode command to have a "-C <remote cluster>" option to expel all nodes from a remote cluster

    During file system issues in a NSD Server Cluster it is sometimes required to expel all nodes from remote clusters so that file system recovery can be preformed. Shutting down or stopping GPFS on remote clusters takes too much time with very large...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    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...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Protocols - NFS rolling update along with Active Directory

    Customer is having NFS being autheticated my MS AD. In this case SMB service needs to be installed and according to documentation, NFS outage is done when upgrading protocol nodes. Customer is requesting non-disruptive NFS protocol nodes upgrade a...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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