FAQ - Glossary

(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.