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Search results: Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

    per-file-system backgrondSpaceReclaimThreshold configuration parameters

    As commented in https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/GPFS-I-1306, the backgroundSpaceReclaim logic included in the recent Spectrum Scale version enables to trigger trim / unmap operations to NVME backend NSD disks while files / blocks are removed / freed o...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Implement RWF_SYNC/RWF_DSYNC flag support in SCALE's pwritev2 syscall handler.

    Recommendation for implementation (IBM should implement): 1. Add IOCB_SYNC/IOCB_DSYNC Handling in gpfs_f_write_iter() int gpfs_f_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter) { ssize_t ret; // Current code: just writes, ignores flags ret =...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Preventive alert for cluster key certificate expiration

    According to the recent flash " IBM Storage Scale: An expired cluster key prevents nodes from connecting to the Storage Scale cluster resulting in admin commands failing to update the cluster configuration.https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/71...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

    Preview of mmreclaimspace for a determinate threshold

    The idea is to have a preview of the mmreclaimspace without actually running it to have an idea of how much space will be recovered by a certain threshold. This can be interesting due to the lower the threshold is, the more impacte in performance ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Allow use of directory other then /tmp for GPFS temporary files.

    We use GPFS / Spectrum Storage on our High Performance Computing Cluster for it's primary file system and use various mm* commands to monitor the health of the cluster and alert us if GPFS goes offline on a node. If a users HPC compute job inadver...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration
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    Alibaba Cloud EBS now supports NVMe Persistent Reservation (PR). Please add support accordingly.

    Merged
    Alibaba Cloud EBS now supports NVMe Persistent Reservation (PR). Please add support accordingly. ==========================nvme resv-register /dev/nvme1n1 --crkey=0x1 --nrkey=0x12345678 --rrega=0NVME Reservation success ==========================n...
    12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

    Change GPFS to use IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT bind() option

    Change GPFS to use IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT bind() option so so that binds() on sockets meant to be used for a subsequent connect() do not require that there's a totally unused port in the ephemeral port range for the source IP. We got an assert on...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Storage Scale GUI command line does not show when Expiration (Safe Guarded snapshot) is enabled

    Client enabled the option "Allow Expiration" at the GUI. At the GUI panel, we see the Expiration column changed from False to True. However when checking in the /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/lssnaprule command, it does not have the Expiration column, so i...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

    Storage Scale - Safe-guarded snapshots - allow expiration - give client to set its own expiration parameter in the GUI snapshot rule

    By setting the "Allow Expiration" for snapshot rules under the GUI, it sets the snapshot only until the next execution, not for the whole retention, neither allows to client to sets its own retention. Based on the IBM Documentation "https://www.ib...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    fix mmdiag --stat -Y indistinguishable entries

    mmdiag offers -Y for machine-readable output. Unfortunately parsing that output is difficult because there are multiple lines that have an identical identification string. So you really cannot deduce what value you are seeing. The only way to sure...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

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