IBM TechXchange Storage Scale (GPFS) Global User Group

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The IBM TechXchange Storage Scale (GPFS) Global User Group is open to all who are using, interested or integrating IBM Storage Scale. We have groups across the world, from the UK to the USA and Asia Pacific.

We welcome IBM Storage Scale users from a wide range of industries and are not sector-specific. Our current membership base includes representation from media, academia, research, automotive, defense and pharmaceutical industries.

This group is independent of IBM and run by the community members, and periodically include ecosystem partner speakers. All agendas are created by client users in the community.

For more information, please go to https://www.ibm.com/products/storage-scale.

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RE: Help removing disk from NSD volume

By: Joseph Koral , 3 months ago

Jose, You have been beyond helpful and I appreciate you being patient with me and answering all my questions. I now a fully functioning /scratch volume again. Adding '-v no' worked and the volume mounted without any issues. Consider this case closed. ...

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RE: Help removing disk from NSD volume

By: José Pina Coelho , 3 months ago

Apparently the news that the filesystem was removed hasn't reached the disks... had something similar on a 16 node cluster 20 years ago (things moved slower). Use '-v no', but first verify that those NSDs aren't associated with another filesystem (mmlsnsd). ...
RE: Help removing disk from NSD volume

By: Joseph Koral , 3 months ago

When I tried to remove the file system, I did get an error. Then I did it with a -p and I thought it removed it because I cannot see it anymore. I then tried to create the file system and received an error that the NSDs still belong to a file system. ...
RE: Help removing disk from NSD volume

By: José Pina Coelho , 3 months ago

Before removing the filesystem, take note of the current values on the mmlsfs output, as some of them might be important for your case. mmcrfs scratch "gd1_12;gd2_12;gd3_12;gd4_12;gd5_12" -A yes -m 2 -M 3 -r 1 -R 3 -T /scratch (M/R) -> Maximum metadata/data ...