[gpfsug-discuss] GPFS RFE promotion

[Bryan Banister]

Just wanted to pass my GPFS RFE along:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=60458


Description:

GPFS File System Manager should provide the option to log all file and directory operations that occur in a file system, preferably stored in a TSD (Time Series Database) that could be quickly queried through an API interface and command line tools.    This would allow many required file system management operations to obtain the change log of a file system namespace without having to use the GPFS ILM policy engine to search all file system metadata for changes, and would not need to run massive differential comparisons of file system namespace snapshots to determine what files have been modified, deleted, added, etc.

It would be doubly great if this could be controlled on a per-fileset bases.



Use case:

This could be used for a very large number of file system management applications, including:
1) SOBAR (Scale-Out Backup And Restore)
2) Data Security Auditing and Monitoring applications
3) Async Replication of namespace between GPFS file systems without the requirement of AFM, which must use ILM policies that add unnecessary workload to metadata resources.
4) Application file system access profiling

Please vote for it if you feel it would also benefit your operation, thanks,
-Bryan


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