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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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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.
about 5 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 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

SMB lease support

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 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future 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 6 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 7 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 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Expedited inode scan / faster disk replacement for descOnly disks with filesystem that have large inode counts

For Scale filesystems with very large inode counts, requesting an improvement to reduce/consolidate the inode scan requirements when replacing the descOnly disks (128M).
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Enable AWS STS support

Currently generating a temporary token is associated to an object or file. In the case of many thousands of files we would prefer STS which would allow us to create temporary Sessions associated to a bucket that can be used to upload, via S3 many ...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enable SMB Multichannel

SMB Multichannel enables file servers to use multiple network connections simultaneously. It facilitates aggregation of network bandwidth and network fault tolerance when multiple paths (f.ex. multiple network adapters configured for LACP on clien...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

mmrestripefs % complete metric is near useless

Current behavior------------------mmrestripefs (and mmdeldisk) displays a % complete metric while it is going. Unforunately, this seems to be tracking the % of the inode of the whole filesystem that it is currently working on. Deficiency of this--...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration