This High Performance Storage System (HPSS) User's Guide provides the necessary information for transferring files using HPSS. It is designed for HPSS users.
The document provides the User's Guide information for HPSS Release 4.5. In particular, the following interfaces are described: standard File Transfer Protocol (FTP) interface, Parallel FTP (PFTP) interface, Network File System Version 2 (NFS V2), Distributed File System (DFS), and XFS. Note: It is not the intent of this document to define the standard commands and subcommands provided by standard FTP, NFS, DFS, and XFS. Only interface extensions provided by HPSS are defined within the HPSS User's Guide.
Refer to the HPSS Installation Guide and HPSS Management Guide for descriptions of the interfaces provided to HPSS administrators. Programming interfaces are documented in the HPSS Programmer's Reference Guides.
Refer to the HPSS Programmer's Reference Guide, Volume 1 for programming interfaces provided to the end user. The programming interfaces provided in the Programmer's Guide Volume 1 are: HPSS Client Application Programming Interface (API), and 64 bit arithmetic functions.
Refer to the HPSS Error Messages Manual for a list of all HPSS error and advisory messages which are output by the HPSS software. For each message, the following information is provided: message identifier and text, source file name(s) which generated the message, problem description, system action, and administrator action.
Refer to the HPSS Programmer's Reference Guide, Volume 2 for programming interfaces to each HPSS server. While it is envisioned that most users will access HPSS through the client API, standard FTP, PFTP, NFS, DFS, or XFS interfaces (documented in Volume 1), well defined programming interfaces are defined for each HPSS server. It should be noted that programming to the individual server level is a more complex programming model which requires a greater understanding of the HPSS servers.
The HPSS User's Guide is structured as follows:
Chapter 1: Overview This chapter provides an overview of each type of user interface, a summary of key storage concepts, and recommendations on usage.
Chapter 2: File Transfer Protocol (FTP) This chapter defines the extensions to the standard FTP interface.
Chapter 3: Parallel File Transfer Protocol (PFTP) This chapter defines the Parallel FTP (PFTP) interface.
Chapter 4: User Utilities This chapter defines the set of utilities available to the general user.
Appendix A: Acronyms This appendix A provides a list of acronyms used in this document.
Appendix B: References This appendix lists documents cited in the text as well as other reference materials.
Typographic and Keying Conventions
This document uses the following typographic conventions:
Bold Bold words or characters represent system elements that you must use literally, such as functions, commands or keywords.
Italic Italic words or characters represent variable values to be supplied.
[ ] Brackets enclose optional items in syntax and format descriptions.
{ } Braces enclose a list of items to select in syntax and format descriptions.