[gpfsug-discuss] Fw: Fwd: IJ24518: NVME SCSI EMULATION ISSUE - what do do with this announcement, all I get is an APAR number

[Achim Rehor]

Also, 5.0.4 PTF4 efix1 contains a fix for that. 


 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards

Achim Rehor
 












gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org wrote on 03/06/2020 01:43:52:

> From: "Mustafa Mah" <yassin at us.ibm.com>
> To: gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org
> Date: 03/06/2020 01:44
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [gpfsug-discuss] Fw: Fwd: IJ24518: NVME SCSI 
> EMULATION ISSUE - what do do with this announcement, all I get is an
> APAR number
> Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org
> 
> Heiner, 
> 
> Here is an alert for this APAR IJ24518 which has more details.
> 
> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6210439
> 
> Regards,
> Mustafa
> 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > From: Billich Heinrich Rainer (ID SD) <heinrich.billich at id.ethz.ch>
> > Date: Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 4:29 AM
> > Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] IJ24518: NVME SCSI EMULATION ISSUE - what 
> > do do with this announcement, all I get is an APAR number
> > To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org>
> > 
> 
> > Hello,
> >  
> > I?m quite upset of the form and usefulness of some IBM announcements
> > like this one:
> >  
> > IJ24518: NVME SCSI EMULATION ISSUE
> >  
> > How do I translate an APAR number to the spectrum scale or ess 
> > release which fix it? And which versions are affected? Need I to 
> > download all Readmes and grep for the APAR number? Or do I just 
> > don?t know where to get this information? How do you deal with such 
> > announcements? I?m tempted to just open a PMR and ask ?.
> >  
> > This probably relates to previous posts and RFE for a proper 
> > changelog. Excuse if it?s a duplicate or if I did miss the answer in
> > a previous post. Still the quality of  this announcements is not 
> > what I expect.
> >  
> > Just for completeness, maybe someone from IBM takes notice:
> >  
> > All I get is an APAR number and the fact that it?s CRITICAL, so I 
> > can?t just ignore, but I don?t get
> >  
> > Which ESS versions are affected ? all previous or only since a 
> > certain version?
> > What is the first ESS version fixed?
> > When am I vulnerable? always, or only certain hardware or 
> > configurations or ?.?
> > What is the impact ? crash due to temporary corruption or permanent 
> > data corruption, or metadata or filesystem structure or ..?
> > How do I know if I?m already affected, what is the fingerprint?
> > Does a workaround exist?
> > If this is critical and about a possible data corruption, why isn?t 
> > it already indicated in the title/subject but hidden?
> > why is the error description so cryptic and needs some guessing 
> > about the meaning? It?s no sentences, just quick notes. So there is 
> > no explicit statement at all. 
> >  
> >  
> > https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6203365?
> > myns=s033&mynp=OCSTXKQY&mync=E&cm_sp=s033-_-OCSTXKQY-_-E
> >  
> > Kind regards,
> >  
> > Heiner
> >  
> > -- 
> > =======================
> > Heinrich Billich
> > ETH Zürich
> > Informatikdienste
> > Tel.: +41 44 632 72 56
> > heinrich.billich at id.ethz.ch
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