Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Clarification about blocksize in stardanrd gpfs and GNR

2019-03-21 Thread Sven Oehme
Lots of details in a presentation I did last year before I left IBM à http://files.gpfsug.org/presentations/2018/Singapore/Sven_Oehme_ESS_in_CORAL_project_update.pdf Sven From: on behalf of Daniel Kidger Reply-To: gpfsug main discussion list Date: Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 10:15 AM

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Clarification about blocksize in stardanrd gpfs and GNR

2019-03-21 Thread Daniel Kidger
Alvise,   Also note that that DeveloperWorks page was maintained by Scott Faddon. He has since left IBM and that page has unfortunately not been updated for almost 2 years. :-(   This page predates the current version 5.x of SpectrumScale which has been available since the beginning of 2018.   In

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] interested in people who have implemented immutability. what was your use case?

2019-03-21 Thread Simon Thompson
We've used soft immutability before for data associated with specific research projects. Soft so that we can remove data as "root" - sometimes research data is a partner's and there are cases when they require us to be able to remove their data. Simon

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] interested in people who have implemented immutability. what was your use case?

2019-03-21 Thread Ran Pergamin
Hi, A customer of mine uses it to store its own customers Digital receipts that they need to store for 12years, due to government regulations, without ability to delete whatsoever. It’s also replicated across two sites. Another uses it to protect critical video digital assets. Regards, Ran

[gpfsug-discuss] interested in people who have implemented immutability. what was your use case?

2019-03-21 Thread Constance M Rice
Hello, I'm trying to understand how and why people have been using the immutability (WORM) functions that became available in scale 4.2. I don't need a company name, just an idea of why and how you use it. TIA Connie Rice Storage Specialist Washington Systems Center Mobile:

[gpfsug-discuss] Spectrum Scale Standard 4.2.3-13 download broken

2019-03-21 Thread David Johnson
I tried twice to download the latest PTF, but the md5sum did not match and the package will not install. Succeeded with the Protocols version. There is no link on the web page to report problems, so I'm posting here hoping someone can get it fixed. -- ddj

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Clarification about blocksize in stardanrd gpfs and GNR

2019-03-21 Thread david_johnson
The underlying device in this context is the NSD, network storage device. This has relation at all to 512 byte or 4K disk blocks. Usually around a meg, always a power of two. -- ddj Dave Johnson > On Mar 21, 2019, at 9:22 AM, Dorigo Alvise (PSI) wrote: > > Hi, > I'm a little bit puzzled

[gpfsug-discuss] Clarification about blocksize in stardanrd gpfs and GNR

2019-03-21 Thread Dorigo Alvise (PSI)
Hi, I'm a little bit puzzled about different meanings of blocksize for different GPFS installation (standard and gnr). >From this page >https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/General%20Parallel%20File%20System%20(GPFS)/page/File%20System%20Planning I read: *

[gpfsug-discuss] SSUG Website updates

2019-03-21 Thread Simon Thompson (Spectrum Scale UG Chair)
Hi all,Just to let you know that over the next week or so, Laurence (OCF) will be updating some components of the server that runs spectrumscaleug.orgWe've already fixed one issue where users of o365 mail services were getting mailing list posts delayed (thanks Kevin for reporting and hanging with