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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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mmputacl recursive option enhancement request

Do you have any suggestions how we can do a recursive ACL change efficiently using mmputacl? For directory trees that include millions of files, running mmputacl on each file or directory using a file list generated by, let's say, the find command...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Under review

Integrate S3 commands into the REST API

We have an automatic workflow which provisiones storage with the help of the REST API (and not mm* commands)Since we want to automate the S3 part, we need s3 commands in the REST API. So the request is to provide S3 administration via REST API, id...
29 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

gpfs.snap command and --sosreport option

If the gpfs.snap command contains the "--sosreport" option, you must be able to specify the node that collects the sosreport. But it doesn't seem to have that feature at the moment. (GPFS 5.2.2.0) When using the "--sosreport" option, could you pro...
7 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info

FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info - These items can cause a cluster wide outage and should be logged as ERRORS. If they were logged as errors, we could pull them into our Kibana dashboard...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Under review

CES-S3 should support multiple groups per S3 account

Currently there's only support for a single group ID for each S3 account. This doesn't fit well with normal file system permissions where the same account might need access to several groups of different roles. F.ex. /gpfs/fs1/department might all...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

extend mmapplypolicy --scope

I have a filesystem with >1300 independent filesets and ~540 million files. Running mapplypolicy with --scope filesystem takes a long time because all inodes need to be scanned. For some mmapplypolicy runs I only need to process one fileset so ...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Enhance mmshutdown confirm shutdown logic to make it ctrl-c resistend.

We had a maintenance window and want to update a storage-cluster that own 20 FS for native K8s and OCP-Clusters. We see if a additionally mmshutdown are happen and the Admin make on the prompt a ctl-c the shutdown process are working together and ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

Implement upstream NooBaa Changes that support recent Amazon S3 server/client changes

Recent client side changes to the aws cli utility as well as the Amazon boto3 python libraries have broken functionality of using the s3 gateway. From Amazon: In AWS CLI v2.23.0, we released changes to the S3 client that adopts new default integri...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Storage Scale - Rest API for file system defragmentation

With the rapid growth in demand for AIGC and autonomous driving, our GPFS file systems are getting larger and larger. We know that disk fragmentation within a file system is an unavoidable condition. As time goes by, the space occupied by file sys...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

Able to monitor and set maintenance mode on external services such as GKLM servers or other dependencies in GPFS GUI and via CLI/REST-API.

If you have two or more GKLM servers connected to your IBM Storage Scale cluster there is no way to via GPFS GUI disable warnings from GKLM servers (At least not in a user friendly way that I know about) . So when you do maintenance on one of your...
21 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review