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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 2, 2023

RELATED IDEAS

Allow remote mount for fileset in different paths on the remote cluster to mou

With the new functionality of remote mount controlled by fileset, it gives the opportunity to grant or deny access to different filesets within the same file system.

Although the functionality is deployed on the owning cluster, at the remote cluster, the remote file system needs access to the remote root file system + the desired filesets.

However, in a situation where client needs access to 2 or more filesets, in different mount points. Instead client has to mount the root fileset and cd to the fileset in the  filesystem remote mounted.  For this client, they need to mount filesets per SAP instance. Currently there is no such functionality developed. 

mmremotefs add Device -f RemoteDevice -C RemoteClusterName
[-A {yes | no | automount}] [-o MountOptions]
[-T Mountpoint] [-t driveLetter] [--mount-priority Priority]

 

Idea priority Low
  • Admin
    THOMAS O'BRIEN
    Reply
    |     Aug 25, 2023

    Thank you for submitting this Storage Scale enhancement reques. I'm gGoing to close this for now. Are able to provide some additional detail on why the existing Remote file acess control capability doesn't accomplish what you are looking for , if so then please open another RFE with the detail

  • Admin
    THOMAS O'BRIEN
    Reply
    |     Jul 7, 2023

    Thank you for opening this request. We were looking for more information on the use case to better understand what is needed. Can you give some additional detail on why the existing Remote file acess control capability doesn't accomplish what you are looking for

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