AMASS Overview

Benefits of Using AMASS

The management tool for your storage system should provide:

•Performance

•Data integrity

•Ease-of-use

•Flexibility

The benefits of using AMASS are described in the following table:

Topic

Page

 

 

Database Improves Performance

1-6

 

 

Design Prevents Thrashing

1-9

 

 

Cache Optimizes Requests

1-9

 

 

Virtually Unlimited File System Size

1-10

 

 

Design Maintains Data Integrity

1-13

 

 

Increased Throughput

1-15

 

 

Tools

1-18

 

 

Flexible

1-20

 

 

Database

Improves

Performance

AMASS keeps a File System Database, resident on the UNIX server’s hard disk, of attributes (commonly referred to as metadata) describing the stored data. Attributes consist of access time, user ID, block size, file size, and so forth. This Database grows as files and directories are added to the file system.

1-6

Online Archiving with AMASS

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