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 (250)
PFTP Parallel File Transfer Protocol
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