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LS
LTO
MAC
managed object
MB
metadata
method
migrate
Migration/Purge Server
MM
mount
mount point
Mover
MPS
MRA
MSSRM
MVR
NASA
Name Service
name space
NERSC
NLS
HPSS Installation Guide
Release 6.2 (Revision 2.0)
Location Server
Linear Tape-Open. A half-inch open tape technology developed by IBM, HP
and Seagate.
Mandatory Access Control
A programming data structure that represents an HPSS system resource. The
resource can be monitored and controlled by operations on the managed
object. Managed objects in HPSS are used to represent servers, drives,
storage media, jobs, and other resources.
Megabyte (220)
Control information about the data stored under HPSS, such as location,
access times, permissions, and storage policies. Most HPSS metadata is
stored in a DB2 relational database.
A Java function or subroutine
To copy file data from a level in the file's hierarchy onto the next lower level
in the hierarchy.
An HPSS server responsible for supervising the placement of data in the
storage hierarchies based upon site-defined migration and purge policies.
Metadata Manager. A software library that provides a programming API to
interface HPSS servers with the DB2 programming environment.
An operation in which a cartridge is either physically or logically made
readable and/or writable on a drive. In the case of tape cartridges, a mount
operation is a physical operation. In the case of a fixed disk unit, a mount is a
logical operation.
A place where a fileset is mounted in the XFS and/or HPSS namespaces.
An HPSS server that provides control of storage devices and data transfers
within HPSS.
Migration/Purge Server
Media Recovery Archive
Mass Storage System Reference Model
Mover
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The portion of the Core Server that providesa mapping between names and
machine oriented identifiers. In addition, the Name Service performs access
verification and provides the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX).
The set of name-object pairs managed by the HPSS Core Server.
National Energy Research Supercomputer Center
National Language Support
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