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LS	Location Server
LTO	Linear Tape-Open. A half-inch open tape technology developed by IBM, HP
	and Seagate.
MAC	Mandatory Access Control
managed object	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.
MB	Megabyte (220)
metadata	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.
method	A Java function or subroutine
migrate	To copy file data from a level in the file’s hierarchy onto the next lower level
	in the hierarchy.
Migration/Purge Server	An HPSS server responsible for supervising the placement of data in the
	storage hierarchies based upon site-defined migration and purge policies.
MM	Metadata Manager. A software library that provides a programming API to
	interface HPSS servers with the DB2 programming environment.
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
mount point	logical operation.
	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
name space	verification and provides the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX).
	The set of name-object pairs managed by the HPSS Core Server.
NERSC	National Energy Research Supercomputer Center
NLS	National Language Support

HPSS Installation Guide	July 2008
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