It is simple really….

The product is called “Storage Scale”.

It used to be called “Spectrum Scale” but that being abbreviated to “SS” was a 
problem, hence the recent change. :-)
As an appliance it is called ESS = “Elastic Storage System” since before being 
called Spectrum Scale, it was briefly called “Elastic Storage”
All the software RPMs though still start with “gpfs” and that is what every 
techie person still calls the software.
The software unpacks to /usr/lpp/mmfs/bin since the product was once the 
“MultiMedia FileSystem”
The ‘lpp’ comes from AIX. It stands for “Licensed Programming Product “. This 
term is lost on everyone who comes from a Linux background.
Likewise no one from the Linux world know what ‘adm’ is, as in /var/adm/ras  
(or ras?)

There are c. 333 ‘mm’ commands like say ‘mmdeldisk’. None are actual binaries – 
all are Korn shell scripts (Korn was a shell language that Bash eventually 
replaced)
*(actually a few mm commands are written in Python not Korn.)
Most mm command call underlying binaries which all start with ‘ts’  eg 
‘tsdeldisk’. This is, as we all know is become the product was known as 
TigerShark but no one could be bothered renaming stuff when “TigerShark” as a 
name was dropped 25 years ago.

Simple?




Daniel Kidger
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Yes, MMFS was the internal name for an offering that I believe was to be called 
VideoCharger/MediaStreamer, and was an ahead of its time/market offering.  When 
MMFS was cancelled, all four of its developers of the time joined the GPFS 
effort, and we had collaborated with them to sequence changes in the same code 
base for a few years by that point and knew them all well.
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On Mar 22, 2023, at 17:30, Alec <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 
wrote:

Thanks for correction.. been using GPFS so long I forgot my basic NFS command.

Or that its now IBM Storage Scale and no longer Spectrum Scale or GPFS...

As a note that info is a little unreliable, but if you take a daily snapshots 
and throw it all together it should give you something.

Alternatively you can have most nfsd daemons log mounts and then scan the logs 
for a more reliable method.

Alec

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023, 2:00 PM Markus Stoeber 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Am 22.03.2023 um 21:45 schrieb Beckman, Daniel D:

Hi,

showmount -a should do the trick, however the manpage notes that:

-a or --all
              List both the client hostname or IP address and mounted directory 
in host:dir format. This info should not be considered reliable. See the notes 
on rmtab in rpc.mountd(8).

showmount -d could also be an option:

-d or --directories
              List only the directories mounted by some client.

Best regards,

Markus


Thanks, but that shows the export list: a list of shares and the hosts / 
networks that have access. It does not show which of those clients are 
currently connected to a given share, as in have it mounted.


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showmount -e nfsserver


Normal way to see that for an nfs server.


On Wed, Mar 22, 2023, 1:13 PM Beckman, Daniel D 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

This is probably a dumb question, but I could not find it in the documentation. 
We have certain NFS exports that we suspect are no longer used or needed but 
before removing we’d like to first check if any clients are currently mounting 
them.  (Not just what has access to those exports.) Are there commands that 
will show this?


Thanks,

Daniel



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