Systems Management: Data Storage Management (XDSM) API

To adequately support data management applications, a file system and its host operating system must include a set of functions and semantics, not found in most POSIX-compliant systems, which include a capability to monitor events on files and to manage and maintain the data in a file. The Data Storage Management (XDSM) specification provides this capability. It defines APIs which use events to notify Data Management (DM) applications about operations on files, enable DM applications to store arbitrary attribute information with a file, support managed regions within a file, and use DM API access rights to control access to a file object. Typically these capabilities are seen as logical extensions of the operating system, requiring special permissions to operate. The interfaces and data structures described in this specification are designed for use in data management applications such as file backup and recovery, file migration, and file replication, and are not intended for direct use by typical end-user or unprivileged processes.

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Technical Standards

Catalog number C429
ISBN 185912190X
Jan 1997

196 pages. height 28 cm. 500 grams.

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