Glossary

archive

A copy of files, on secondary media, that have been removed from the system because they are no longer active.

autoconfiguration

The automatic loading of kernel modules as they are needed.

auto_home

The indirect automount map that you use to add home directories to the automounter.

automounter

Software that can automatically mount several different types of file systems, for example, NFS, LOFS, HSFS, when a user changes that file system; unmounts the file system when it is no longer in use.

backing-store

Glossary A bitmapped file created by the fssnap command, that contains copies of presnapshot data that has been modified since the snapshot was ...

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