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Status Delivered
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 23, 2017

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Create or Change CES Exports without restarting Ganesha

According to the ISS documentation, a change on a CES NFS Export, like adding an additional IP causes ISS to restart Ganesha on each CES Node. Since Ganesha also supports dynamically adding exports via DBUS, without causing restarts, we request that IBM implements this as foundation for its mmnfs export change/add commands.

Idea priority High
  • 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

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 5, 2018

    Delivered in 4Q2017 (release 5.0)

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 13, 2017

    This feature is essential for production environments were exports lists usually are not static.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 6, 2017

    Planned for delivery in 4Q2017 (release 5.0)

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 24, 2017

    I think that is a reasonable feature.

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