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Status Submitted
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 9, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

allow s3 nooba to upload user files to gpfs

we have setup mmces S3 to allow users to write into an immutable fileset (Noncompliant Mode) for long term archiving their data.

Listing and reading files from or even removing them in the fileset via S3 works as expected. But an upload of new data failes with "error 403 not Permitted". 

We have followed the logs and found out that nooba-core, when uploading file to the filesystem, creates a hard link at some point in the process. Probably to continue uploads in case of interruption. As creating these hard links are prohibited in GPFS inside immutable filesets the whole upload fails.

It could be solved by changing uploading data without using hard-links in the process, or by introducing a special noncompliant mode 
 

Idea priority High

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