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Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 27, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Observe Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard for Zimon

The Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), cf. https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.pdf, foresees /var for data writes and /opt for installed software (quasi write once read many, WORM). That is usually what system admins design the file system set-up along: relatively small root file system incl. /usr and /opt, relatively large /var file system to hold log data and related stuff. Spectrum Scale, in particular zimon, does not care about that reasonable distinction and writes its volatile data into /opt/IBM/zimon/data/ in violation of the FHS and contrary to justified expectations. In result, that directory blocks a large amount of storage capacity of the root file system with the risk of completely clogging it. Of course one can work around by making /opt/IBM/zimon/data/ a symlink pointing into /var, but it would be a nice move of IBM / GPFS to plainly observe the FHS directly.

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