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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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SuSE Kernel Updates caused GPFS incompatibility.

GM was forced to perform 2 GPFS upgrades across 3 large clusters due to SuSE security patches conflicting with GPFS. SuSE and IBM are requested to work together to keep this from happening going forward.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Loss of access with nsddevices script

This is the follow up of case TS001236089 when customer copy the script "nsddevices" to the directory /var/mmfs/etc/ on ESS I/O nodes that prevent the code to discover disks for the recovery groups which result in loss access. This RFE is to addre...
almost 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....
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 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 (...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

More Groups in Spectrum Scale for AIX

Currently under Spectrum Scale Server for AIX 4.2.x the products supports only 128 AIX Groups but in all other OS much more like Windows and Linux. We Need urgently the support of more Group id's
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 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...
about 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...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

DMAPI call dm_fd_to_handle can cause kernel crash

Our concerns centre around the behaviour of dm_fd_to_handle and dm_path_to_handle. According to the Data Storage Management (XDSM) API specification, these functions should fail with ENXIO when “The file system containing the file opened on fd or ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Reduce time to remove a failed disk in GPFS

Please can you look to reduce the time it takes to remove a disk from a GPFS file system in the particular scenario when the disk has already failed (and so is suspended or down) and the data on it has been evacuated onto other nodes as restripeOn...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Account SE

System: Spectrum ScaleRefer the case ID TS002297333. Actor: User needing new feature for Recovery In customer's environment, there are 2 AD servers to have reliability when the one AD server get down.Spectrum scale(SS) can't get the bemefit of it ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

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