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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    CES-S3 Glacier Support for Spectrum Archive managed Scale Cluster

    Enhancement of using our implemented solution on base of ESS, Storage Scale and Storage Archive environments.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    extend number of independent filesets

    For a file system used in a large research facility with a capacity beyond 20 PB, we would like to generate at least 5000 independent filesets for projects being active in processing and generating data. We expect initially a demand for 5000 indep...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Auto-cleanup /tmp/mmfs

    Over time /tmp/mmfs fills up will diagnostic data from gpfs.snap. Provide a facility to cleanup those files automatically based on age.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    AFM immutable file support

    Need to be able to make files immutable in a home fileset for AFM in order to protect data from ransomware, data will be created at the cache site (single-writer) and transferred to the home site using AFM, data are to be retained at the home site...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

    Monitor Spectrum Archive components in mmhealth

    Spectrum Archive is missing from mmhealty. Please add monitoring of services and sub-component status similar to tiering to cloud. Lots of library, drive, cartridge and task statuses are easily available from the eeadm command.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Protocols - SMB Leasing

    Migrating system currently using a windows share to Spectrum scale and experiencing performance issues:The Windows server grantsSMB leases to the client, thus multiple opens won't break the client caching. As a result there are fewer and larger RE...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    gpfs mmputacl command

    Currently there isn't a mmputacl -R option to recursively put permissions on nested directories as you can usually do we aclput -R. Not sure why that option was left out from the beginning.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Not under consideration

    mmbackup enhancements

    mmbackup has no support of application that generate the Content of the same file with a temporary file, and if finish renamed these temp file to original name. SAS-Institute with the *.sas7bdat.lck as temp and *.sas7bdat as original filename are ...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Eliminate the use of ssh and sudo wrappers

    In most installations sshd PermitRootLogin is required to be NO for security reasons.That means sudo wrappers must be used. We do not use linux provided sudo but a vendor provided replacement that is centrally managed and auditable. We've had a di...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    When using Protocol nodes, the export IPs should be the only one to allow mounting shares

    With the use of Protocol Nodes, the CES requires IPs for export shares. However, even having the IP specific for share, the internal IPs (NODE IPs), which are used for administration only, also allow the NFS Mounts. The request is to isolate the n...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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