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Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 3, 2017

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GPFS SMB - dfree command

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We are deploying GPFS into production enviroment, but GPFS has problem with SMB service. SMB service (smbd) reports double size share than is real. This is caused by filesystem replication on two storwize V5010.
The solution of this problem is to use SMB option dfree command. The option can run custom shell script, which returns two integers in ASCII. The first should be the total disk space in blocks, and the second should be the number of available blocks.
The shell script divides two integers by 2. This option was tested in virtual testlab with general Samba (https://www.samba.org) and Samba package from RedHat official repository. This experiment was successful.
The option can be set per share in smb.conf. It means that the option will be used only on replicated filesystems for the correct report size of SMB shares.
The GPFS SMB service from development is based on the general Samba, but no support this option. Could you this option (dfree command) add to new build of smbd service?
Thank you for update current release GPFS SMB service.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 7, 2020

    Delivered in 5.1.0

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 6, 2020

    Supported in 5.1.0

  • 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) - Public 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) - Public RFEs
    Component - V4 Product functionality

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