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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 30, 2014

Treat all independent filesets identically to the global namespace operations

Independent filesets do not raise callbacks on lowSpace or noSpace. Therefore it is very easy for an independent fileset to become full instantly affecting users.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    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
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    Oct 22, 2014

    Block allocation is done on a plane independent of filesets -- a storage pool may be full, as in not having any free blocks left. Multiple filesets may be sharing the same pool of storage. So lowDiskSpace/noDiskSpace events for block allocation are only generated for storage pool objects, not fileset objects.

    Inode allocation does occur on the fileset plane. A specific inode space, i.e. an independent fileset, may be out of free inodes. If that occurs, a noDiskSpace event should be generated, with the corresponding %reason and %filesetName arguments passed in. That code hasn't been there since inception though. It was added in 3.4.0.18 for GPFS V3.4 and 3.5.0.5 for GPFS V3.5; both came out around Oct 2012. If a sufficiently recent code level is used, and noDiskSpace events are not being generated when an independent fileset hits the inode limit, that would be a bug, to be worked via a PMR.

  • Guest
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    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 - Linux

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

  • Guest
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    Jul 31, 2014

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #56779 in product GPFS.