HPSS User's Guide

Revision 1 (June 2002)


Table of Contents

Preface Chapter 1. Overview

1.1. User Interfaces

1.1.1. File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

1.1.2. Parallel FTP (PFTP)

1.1.3. Network File System Version 3 (NFS)

1.1.4. DFS and XFS

1.1.4.1. Distributed File System (DFS)

1.1.4.2. XFS

1.1.5. User Utilities

1.2. Storage Concepts

1.2.1. Class of Service

1.2.2. Storage Class

1.2.3. Storage Hierarchy

1.3. Interface Usage Considerations

1.4. User IDs

1.5. DCE User Accounts

Chapter 2. File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

2.1. Site Commands

2.1.1. Specifying a File's Class of Service - setcos

2.1.2. Changing a File's Group by ID - chgid

2.1.3. Changing a File's Group by Name - chgrp

2.1.4. Changing a File's Permissions - chmod

2.1.5. Changing a File's Owner by Name - chown

2.1.6. Changing a File's Owner by ID - chuid

2.1.7. Staging a File - stage

2.1.8. Setting the Desire Wait Options (for Migrated Files) - wait

2.1.9. Creating a Symbolic Link - symlink

2.1.10. Allocating space for files - quote allo64

2.2. List Directory Extensions

Chapter 3. Parallel File Transfer Protocol (PFTP)

3.1. Parallel FTP Client Transfers

3.1.1. Parallel FTP Client Configuration

3.1.1.1. HPSS.conf File

3.1.1.2. PFTP Specific HPSS.conf entries

3.1.1.3. Local File Functions

3.2. Additional HPSS Commands

3.2.1. General Login messages (Examples)

3.2.2. Parallel append - pappend

3.2.3. Parallel file store - pput

3.2.4. Parallel file store - mpput

3.2.5. Parallel file retrieval - pget

3.2.6. Parallel file retrieval - mpget

3.2.7. Local File append - lfappend

3.2.8. Local File store - lfput

3.2.9. Local file retrieval - lfget

3.2.10. Multiple Local file store - mlfput

3.2.11. Multiple Local file retrieval - mlfget

3.2.12. Specify TCP socket based transfers - psocket

3.2.13. Specify transfer stripe width - setpwidth

3.2.14. Specify transfer block size - setpblocksize

3.2.15. Multinode Enable/Disable - multinode

3.2.16. Autoparallel Enable/Disable - autoparallel

3.2.17. Get Current Protocol Mode - getprot

3.2.18. 3.2.19. Get Tuning Parameters - gettuningparms

3.2.19. Set the PDATA_ONLY protocol - pdata

3.2.20. Override the Non-AutoParallel mode - penable

3.2.21. Set the PDATA_AND_MOVER protocol - pmover

3.2.22. Set the Socket Buffer Size - setsockbufsize

3.2.23. Set the Transfer Buffer Size - setxferbufsize

Chapter 4. User Utilities

4.1. Utilities

4.1.1. HPSS ACL Editor - hacl

4.1.2. List information about HPSS - lshpss

Appendix A - Acronyms Appendix B - References