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Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 20, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Improvement of mmnetverify for remote mounted filesystems

mmnetverify seems to be created with the assumption that everyone is using adminMode=allToAll, and is using passwordless ssh for many of it's checks. This is problematic both to local cluster with adminMode=central (no passwordless ssh from clients), and even more so for remote clusters which often don't even have firewall opening for SSH access between clusters.
mmnetverify should support using other forms of remote commands than passwordless ssh. It should be using the same functionality as used for other RPCs, where it contacts the remote mmfsd to launch remote commands. 

For the case where we the mmfsd is not yet started, we might need a separate test daemon that we can launch manually on the remote nodes before starting the mmnetverify tests.

Once fixed, documentation should also reflect the changes. 

Idea priority Medium

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