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IBM General Parallel File System for AIX: Data Management API Guide

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About this book

  • Who should use this book
  • Information formats
  • What you need to know first
  • How this book is organized
  • Typography and terminology
  • Related Information
  • Obtaining documentation

    • What's new

  • What's new for GPFS 1.3
  • Changes for GPFS 1.2
  • Migration

    • Chapter 1. Overview of Data Management API for GPFS

  • DMAPI events
  • Events implemented in DMAPI for GPFS
  • Optional events that are not implemented in DMAPI for GPFS
  • DMAPI functions
  • Mandatory functions implemented in DMAPI for GPFS
  • Optional functions implemented in DMAPI for GPFS
  • Optional functions that are not implemented in DMAPI for GPFS
  • DMAPI configuration attributes

    • Chapter 2. Data Management API principles for GPFS

  • Sessions
  • Events
  • Mount and unmount
  • Tokens and access rights
  • Parallelism in Data Management applications
  • Data Management attributes
  • Support for DFS and NFS
  • Quota
  • Memory mapped files

    • Chapter 3. Administering the Data Management API for GPFS

  • Required files for implementation of Data Management applications
  • GPFS configuration options for DMAPI
  • Enabling DMAPI for a file system
  • Initializing the Data Management application

    • Chapter 4. Specifications of enhancements in the GPFS implementation of Data Management API

  • Enhancements to data structures
  • Usage restrictions on DMAPI functions
  • Semantic changes to DMAPI functions
  • Additional error codes returned by DMAPI functions
  • All DMAPI functions
  • Functions that provide a file handle as an input argument
  • Functions that provide a token as an input argument
  • Individual functions

    • Chapter 5. Failure and recovery of Data Management API for GPFS

  • DMAPI failure model for GPFS
  • Single node failure
  • Session failure and recovery
  • Event recovery
  • Loss of access rights
  • DM application failure

    • Appendix A. DMAPI data types and structures in GPFS

    Appendix B. DMAPI functions in GPFS

    Notices

  • Trademarks

    • Glossary

    Index

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