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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Report internal status of NSDs on NSD servers

When NSDs on an NSD server experience an I/O error GPFS appears to mark them as being in an error state, the end result being clients not sending I/O requests to that NSD server. When this happens the NSD reports it as OK via mmlsdisk and mmlsnsd....
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Empty NFS exports should be shown

When removing the last client from an NFS export in Spectrum Scale 4.2.3.2 the fileset disappears from the list in the GUI and command line. (mmnfs export list). It is then not possible to create a new export as the export still exists in the conf...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

mmnetverify should be able to specify node in multi-cluster

mmnetverify currently is only able to check the connection between nodes in a single cluster. When diagnosing issues between nodes in multi-cluster this means it is not possible to use mmnetverify to assist. An additional flag should be added to m...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Need a Spectrum Scale filesystem Maintenance mode (JUMP Trading LLC)

Currently, Spectrum Scale does not have a maintenance mode that can disable operations at the cluster or file system level. This is especially true for large multi cluster configurations that span multiple sites, where maintenance on the storage c...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

CES RFE for Fruit VFS module support

The current version Samba in Protocol Node does not have support for the Fruit VFS module. This precludes some functionality in OS X and other OS's that Media content environments depend on. Specifically the following VFS modules that could be lev...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

better mtu detection in mmnetverify

mmnetverify should try more data sizes than the current data-small/medium/large. F.ex. I just discovered that the ESS installation scripts by defaults sets an MTU of 2048 -- even on ethernet. This is not detected as a problem with the current test...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Enhanced security for Spectrum Scale admin

Administrative access to Spectrum Scale (including but not limited to the WebUI) has a weak security model.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Integration of Spectrum Scale CCR services with systemd (JUMP Trading LLC)

systemd is the facility for managing and integrating long running software services. Spectrum Scale needs to be integrated with systemd so that long running, required CCR services are managed by systemd units and not internal Spectrum Scale script...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

chmod: Use version that supports NFSv4 ACLs

The version of chmod linked below fully supports the manipulation of NFSv4 ACLs. This is the version that Isilon OneFS uses and it's fantastic. I can add/remove Active Directory users and groups, modify permissions, add ACL control flags, etc., al...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Add compression format options - lz4 for sure, maybe xz

Spectrum Scale 4.2 added support for zlib compression. zlib is moderate compression, and low-medium speed. The implementation allows for compression as a foreground command, or background action. Either is likely to be slow. Decompression can be d...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

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