mount
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.
mount point
A place where a fileset is mounted in the XFS and/or HPSS namespaces.
Mover
An HPSS server that provides control of storage devices and data transfers
within HPSS.
MPS
Migration/Purge Server
MRA
Media Recovery Archive
MSSRM
Mass Storage System Reference Model
MVR
Mover
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Name Service
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).
name space
The set of name-object pairs managed by the HPSS Core Server.
NERSC
National Energy Research Supercomputer Center
NLS
National Language Support
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
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