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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 30, 2014

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Option to mount the file system with the root being as a subdirectory

Control over where GPFS mounts the 'root' (or perhaps fakeroot) of a GPFS file system in order to preserve file paths across different topologies.

Idea priority Medium
  • 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 recommend addressing this with OS native mechanisms, e.g. mount --bind on Linux or Unix.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 23, 2014

    This is doable today, and is orthogonal to GPFS per se. On AIX and Linux, there is a way to mount an arbitrary subdirectory at an arbitrary mount point, e.g. on Linux:

    mount --bind /gpfs/mydata1 /mydata1

  • 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 #56792 in product GPFS.

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