Glossary
- active.
A component that is performing work or is waiting to perform work.
- active/active.
An architecture for high availability where all components are active and can assume extra work if another component fails.
- active/passive.
An architecture for high availability where one or more components are idle, waiting to take over for another that fails.
- actuator.
A mechanism in disk drives that rotates and moves disk arms across disk platters.
- aggregation.
The combination of storage address spaces, making a larger space from multiple smaller storage address spaces.
- allocation.
A file system process that selects the storage blocks to use in creating or updating a file.
- appliance.
A special-purpose server or device that is easy to install and use. ...
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