AMASS Overview
E
Ethernet
A networking system designed to connect computers that are releatively close together (physically in the same department). The specification has been defined by IEEE Standard 802.3. Other software, such as TCP/IP, runs on top of Ethernet to provide
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FCB
File Control Block. A kernel file system memory resident data structure containing information about a file including metadata.
FDDI
Fiber Distributed Data Interface A
file
A collection of related data, such as:
•Text
•Tables
•Digitized audio and visual records
file import
A DataMgr feature that imports data from a “foreign” archival file system into DataMgr to be archived by AMASS.
file replication
A storage policy that migrates files from a client machine through DataMgr and AMASS to a primary storage library. The data is then replicated (copied) to a maximum of three other storage devices.
FileServ™
FileServ acts as an online storage node for specific libraries by managing online user data and providing quick response to client requests for data. When data is not required for active processing, FileServ migrates it to magnetic tape to maintain free disk space.
file system
An organized set of files that appear as a part of a directory structure, when used under UNIX. All files managed by AMASS are under a mount point whose default name is /archive. The AMASS file system is accessed as if it were located on a local hard drive, instead of actually residing in media either in a storage device or even in offline storage.
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