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Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 30, 2014

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  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 30, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Private RFEs
    Component - Product functionality

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Private RFEs
    Component - V3 Product functionality

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 19, 2017

    We believe this has been addressed in Scale 4.1.1. If there are still outstanding requirements, please submit a new request.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 23, 2014

    There will also be some bug fixes in this area coming out in 4.1.0.4.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 22, 2014

    This should work with the current code. One needs to be careful to be in compliance with OS-specific EA rules though. In particular, on Linux, the namespace guidelines need to be followed. Non-root users generally must use the "user." prefix in all EA keys.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 19, 2014

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - General Parallel File System
    Product - GPFS
    Component - V3 Product functionality
    Operating system - Multiple

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - General Parallel File System
    Product - GPFS
    Component - V3
    Operating system - Multiple

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 31, 2014

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #56772 in product GPFS.

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