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notification
A notice from one server to another about a noteworthy occurrence. HPSS
notifications include notices sent from other servers to SSM of changes in
managed object attributes, changes in tape mount information, and log
messages that are alarm, event, and status log record message types.
NS
HPSS Name Service
NSL
National Storage Laboratory
object
See Managed Object
ONC
Open Network Computing
ORNL
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
OSF
Open Software Foundation
OS/2
Operating System (multi-tasking, single user) used on the AMU controller PC
PB
Petabyte (2
50
)
PFTP
Parallel File Transfer Protocol
physical volume
An HPSS object managed jointly by the Core Server and the Physical Volume
Library that represents the portion of a virtual volume. A virtual volume may
be composed of one or more physical volumes, but a physical volume may
contain data from no more than one virtual volume.
Physical Volume Library
An HPSS server that manages mounts and dismounts of HPSS physical
volumes.
Physical Volume Repository
An HPSS server that manages the robotic agent responsible for mounting and
dismounting cartridges or interfaces with the human agent responsible for
mounting and dismounting cartridges.
PIO
Parallel I/O
PIOFS
Parallel I/O File System
POSIX
Portable Operating System Interface (for computer environments)
purge
Deletion of file data from a level in the file’s hierarchy after the data has been
duplicated at lower levels in the hierarchy and is no longer needed at the
deletion level.
purge lock
A lock applied to a bitfile which prohibits the bitfile from being purged.
PV
Physical Volume
PVL
Physical Volume Library
PVM
Physical Volume Manager
PVR
Physical Volume Repository
RAID
Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RAIT
Redundant Array of Independent Tapes
HPSS Installation Guide July 2008
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