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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 25, 2023

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add --auto-inode-limit for independent filesets

In Storage Scale 5.1.4 mmcrfs/mmchfs introduced the --(no)auto-inode-limit switches. Unfortunately this only works for whole filesystems and cannot be finetuned for individual (independent) filesets.

There are situations where you have a mixed environment where for some filesets auto-inode-limit desired and for others not. E.g software shares, where the installation of another version should not fail but silently extend the inode space) vs. userhomes (where ill programmed scripts can generate lots of files (happened more than once here...)).

As there's no way to reduce the number of inodes once such a desaster happens you are stuck with too many allocated inodes you cannot get rid of...

Idea priority Medium
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    THOMAS O'BRIEN
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    |     Oct 6, 2023

    WE'll consider this for a future release. In the interim, you could establish quotas on the fileset to control behavior of user scripts

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