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Status Planned for future release
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 5, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

Option for consistently following symbolic links in AFM

AFM's default behavior updates symlinks without fetching the target file at the home site. This behavior can cause applications that are relying on that symlink to break.

We are requesting a feature that allows AFM to follow symlinks if the target file can be fetched from the home site.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Apr 5, 2024

    Given the size and scope of our deployment, and thus the high likelihood of this causing applications to break, I consider this a must-have enhancement.

  • Guest
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    |     Apr 5, 2024

    Not sure how one can say "this is working as designed". It makes AFM completely useless.

  • Guest
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    |     Apr 5, 2024

    This feature is critical and I consider the current AFM functionality broken even though it's working "as designed". We update a file, then we update the link to that file, however, the AFM caches get the updated link but not the updated file. To workaround this, we have to figure out a way to trigger the AFM of the file first. Please update this functionality so it checks the targets of the links and AFMs those targets over.

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