WishList

WishList items that have been implemented will continue to be displayed here for at least one release level.  Items that have been included in the current release are also listed in the News page.


Note: 

In the following tables, HSI/HTAR version 3.4.x is for HPSS Release 6.2, HSI/HTAR version 3.5.x is for HPSS Release 7.1


HSI WishList Items



Version

Feature

    Notes


provide tab completion of commands in interactive mode



provide a "diff" or "cmp" command to compare HPSS and local or HPSS files



provide graceful quiesce capability for HPSS maintenance periods



use multiple n/w connections for xfers even for non-striped HPSS COSs


Need option similar to -p to preserve only modification time or access time, but not both, on gets and puts (-Poption perhaps?)



Provide a way for controllers (e.g. "hopper") to obtain info such as the current file being transferred, directory being scanned, etc. to display in a gui window before the operation actually completes



Make "ls" run faster, and implement "ls -ltr"



Add default COS to use in the HSIRC file


Provide ability to stage all files in an aggregatet


Add ability to control or disable retry errors (number of tries, interval between retries, type of errors retried, etc)


3.5.5

Add a "thread stacksize" setting to the hsirc file(s)



Add rename syntax (local : hpss) for directories to allow "put -R localdir : hpssdir" and "get -R localdir : hpssdir"



in "lscos" listing, display warnings for overlapping sizes, gaps for file sizes, and other anomalies



Add "rsync" capability



Add md5/sha1 checksums for creating/verifying files, with ability to add checksums to pre-existing files



For "mv -f source target", do not delete a pre-existing "target" if "source" does not exist




Add a "conditional cp" command with a -U option, similar to "cput"



make the path to "HPSS.conf" be a configuration item

currently uses HPSS_CFG_FILE_PATH if set. Will be added to hsirc file

3.4.4,3.5.1

make the path to the hsirc file be specifiable via environment variable

uses HPSS_CFG_FILE_PATH if set.


add a "recently stored" and "recently retrieved" server-side file that can be viewed by a new hsi command, such as "recent [-r] [-w] [-d days]



provide interactive feedback to users when the maximum number of HSIGWD sessions has been reached, instead of just appearing to hang until it is this session's turn to start



implement a global server-side autoscheduler that works with all active HSI sessions



add a "news" command to describe newly implemented features, bugfixes, etc.



add ability to dump bitfile and storage segment attributes ala the "scrub" utility, and other selected "scrub"-style features such as diagnostics for reading/writing files



implement environment variables to replace keyset settings



add "copies = *" to the HSI COS file, to match any specified copy count when doing autocos selection



optionally have the HSIGWD create the local working directory at startup if it doesn't exist


Provide additional size display options besides -k to the DU command



HSI "find" command: add ability to find files created/read/written/modified with a given begin/end time window



Add better scripting access to support more robust batch scripts.  Add ability to specify a "success" and "failure" file for put/get/ls commands.



Ensure that errors always result in non-zero exit code in HSI



Add ability to specify varying levels of errors/warnings to cause non-zero exit codes.



log full pathnames in xferlog entries



provide an option to specify"name=value" fields in the HSI xferlog, instead of the current tab-separated fixed-format fields



HTAR WishList Items


Version

Feature

Notes

 



Implement "update" and "append " functions in HTAR



Implement new IEEE "pax" standard to remove restrictions on pathname length, symlink target length, and max size of member files



Ability to create HPSS or local archives from files that live in HPSS, and ability to extract from HPSS or local archives into HPSS


3.5.5

Add htarrc file



Display periodic real-time transfer updates with transfer rate, estimated time to completion, percent transferred, etc. , for example:
" HTAR: current transfer rate = 192 MB/s ; 83% complete"


Add full support for gzip for creating compressed archive files and compressed index files. At a minimum, support building an index for, and extracting files from, an existing gzip-ed archive file, for example,
" htar -zxvf file.tar.gz"



Add a "-exclude" command line option, and an "exclude" capability in the -L file



Implement HSI-style COS restrictions for uids/gids/acctids for the -Y option