<html><body><p><font size="2">Heiner</font><font size="2">, </font><br><br><font size="2">Here is an alert for this </font><font size="2">APAR </font><font size="2">IJ24518 which has more details.</font><br><br><a href="https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6210439"><font size="2">https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6210439</font></a><br><br><font size="2">Regards,<br>Mustafa</font><br><br><tt><font size="2">> ---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>> From: Billich Heinrich Rainer (ID SD) <heinrich.billich@id.ethz.ch><br>> Date: Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 4:29 AM<br>> Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] IJ24518: NVME SCSI EMULATION ISSUE - what <br>> do do with this announcement, all I get is an APAR number<br>> To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org></font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> <br></font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> Hello,</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> </font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> I’m quite upset of the form and usefulness of some IBM announcements<br>> like this one:</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> </font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> IJ24518: NVME SCSI EMULATION ISSUE</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> </font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> How do I translate an APAR number to the spectrum scale or ess <br>> release which fix it? And which versions are affected? Need I to <br>> download all Readmes and grep for the APAR number? Or do I just <br>> don’t know where to get this information? How do you deal with such <br>> announcements? I’m tempted to just open a PMR and ask ☹.</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> </font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> This probably relates to previous posts and RFE for a proper <br>> changelog. Excuse if it’s a duplicate or if I did miss the answer in<br>> a previous post. Still the quality of this announcements is not <br>> what I expect.</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> </font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> Just for completeness, maybe someone from IBM takes notice:</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> </font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> All I get is an APAR number and the fact that it’s CRITICAL, so I <br>> can’t just ignore, but I don’t get</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> </font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> Which ESS versions are affected – all previous or only since a <br>> certain version?</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> What is the first ESS version fixed?</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> When am I vulnerable– always, or only certain hardware or <br>> configurations or ….?</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> What is the impact – crash due to temporary corruption or permanent <br>> data corruption, or metadata or filesystem structure or ..?</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> How do I know if I’m already affected, what is the fingerprint?</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> Does a workaround exist?</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> If this is critical and about a possible data corruption, why isn’t <br>> it already indicated in the title/subject but hidden?</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> why is the error description so cryptic and needs some guessing <br>> about the meaning? It’s no sentences, just quick notes. So there is <br>> no explicit statement at all. </font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> </font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> </font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> <a href="https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6203365?">https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6203365?</a><br>> myns=s033&mynp=OCSTXKQY&mync=E&cm_sp=s033-_-OCSTXKQY-_-E</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> </font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> Kind regards,</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> </font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> Heiner</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> </font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> -- </font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> =======================</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> Heinrich Billich</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> ETH Zürich</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> Informatikdienste</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> Tel.: +41 44 632 72 56</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> heinrich.billich@id.ethz.ch</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> ========================</font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> </font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> </font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> </font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> </font></tt><br><tt><font size="2">> _______________________________________________<br>> gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>> gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br>> <a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a></font></tt><BR>
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