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

How this book is organized

This book consists of the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, "Overview of Data Management API for GPFS" provides a summary of GPFS Data Management API support that includes events, functions, and configuration attributes.
• Chapter 2, "Data Management API principles for GPFS" discusses enhancements in the DMAPI model used in GPFS, mostly due to the support for a multi-node environment.
• Chapter 3, "Administering the Data Management API for GPFS" provides installation and configuration information.
• Chapter 4, "Specifications of enhancements in the GPFS implementation of Data Management API" provides data structure and function information specific to the GPFS implementation of DMAPI.
• Chapter 5, "Failure and recovery of Data Management API for GPFS" discusses the aspects of failure and recovery of DMAPI in the multi-node GPFS environment.
• Appendix A, "DMAPI data types and structures in GPFS" provides C declarations of all DMAPI data types and structures that are used in the GPFS implementation of DMAPI.
• Appendix B, "DMAPI functions in GPFS" provides C declarations of all DMAPI functions in the GPFS implementation of DMAPI.