DMAPI
Encyclopedia
Data Management API is the interface defined in the X/Open document "Systems Management: Data Storage Management (XDSM) API" dated February 1997. XFS
, IBM JFS
, VxFS, AdvFS
and GPFS file systems support DMAPI for Hierarchical Storage Management
(HSM).
XFS
XFS is a high-performance journaling file system created by Silicon Graphics, Inc. It is the default file system in IRIX releases 5.3 and onwards and later ported to the Linux kernel. XFS is particularly proficient at parallel IO due to its allocation group based design...
, IBM JFS
JFS
-Computing:* Journaling file system , a type of file system* JFS , a journaling file system by IBM* JFS , an OEM version of the Veritas File System, a journaling file system by Veritas...
, VxFS, AdvFS
AdvFS
AdvFS, also known as Tru64 UNIX Advanced File System, is a file system developed in the late 1980s to mid 1990s by Digital Equipment Corporation for their OSF/1 version of the Unix operating system...
and GPFS file systems support DMAPI for Hierarchical Storage Management
Hierarchical storage management
Hierarchical storage management is a data storage technique which automatically moves data between high-cost and low-cost storage media. HSM systems exist because high-speed storage devices, such as hard disk drive arrays, are more expensive than slower devices, such as optical discs and magnetic...
(HSM).