FAQ - Glossary

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(Updated: Jan 2011)

• ACL: Access Control List
• CMD: Clustered Metadata
• DLM: Distributed Lock Manager
• EA: Extended Attribute
• FC: Fibre Channel
• FID: Lustre File Identifier
• FLDB: FID Location Database
• HPC: High-Performance Computing
• IB: InfiniBand
• IOV: I/O Vector
• LBUG: Lustre Bug
• LDLM: Lustre Distributed Lock Manager
• LMV: Logical Metadata Volume
• LND: Lustre Network Driver
• LOV: Logical Object Volume
• MDC: Metadata Client
• MDD: Metadata Disk Device
• MDS: Metadata Server
• MDT: Metadata Target
• MGS: Management Service
• NID: Network Identifier
• OBD: Object Device
• OSC: Object Storage Client
• OSD: Object Storage Device
• OSS: Object Storage Server
• OST: Object Storage Target
• PTLRPC: RPC protocol layer on LNET
• RPC: Remote Procedure Call

For additional glossary terms, see Glossary in the Lustre Operations Manual.

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