Simple tape management system

Author

Gurin, Ruten ; Maslennikov, Andrei

Author_Institution

La Sapienza Univ., Rome, Italy

fYear

1994

fDate

1994

Firstpage

65

Lastpage

67

Abstract

A compact, interactive tape management system is described. It is fast, requires no commercial software, and includes a user-friendly human interface. The CASPUR tape management system (TMS) was designed for relatively small (up to several tens of thousands tapes) tape pools. The main design principle was simplicity: no sophisticated database tools or systems are used; instead, the TMS server keeps all the information in plain text file. This design decision could have led to difficulties, such as those that could be encountered if one needs to change/introduce some fields in the database. However, this difficulty does not occur with the CASPUR TMS because all the data fields are well defined from the very beginning

Keywords

file servers; magnetic tape storage; storage management; user interfaces; CASPUR tape management system; TMS server; data fields; interactive tape management system; plain text file; simple tape management system; user-friendly human interface; Authorization; Databases; Delay; File servers; Humans; Operating systems; Physics computing; Protection; User interfaces; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mass Storage Systems, 1994. 'Towards Distributed Storage and Data Management Systems.' First International Symposium. Proceedings., Thirteenth IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Annecy

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5580-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MASS.1994.373032

Filename

373032