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FAQ - Glossary
From Lustre.org
(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.

