Man Page

Manual pages are on-line references that are available as part of the Solaris computing environment.

Master Device

A master device is that part of the trans metadevice that contains the file system being logged.

Media Database

Media database contains information on the volumes where the backed up files are stored.

Metadevice

In the Solstice(R) DiskSuite(R) software a virtual disk is called a metadevice. A metadevice is functionally identical to a physical disk in the view of an application. The Solstice DiskSuite software's metadevices are built from slices.

Media Interlace

The interlace value is the number of blocks on a component of a striped or RAID 5 metadevice, that can be accessed simultaneously with the same number of blocks from other components. In other words, the interlace value tells the Solstice DiskSuite software how much data to place on a component before moving on to the next component.

Metadisk Driver

Metadisk driver is a special device driver used by the Solstice DiskSuite software to coordinate input/output (I/O) to and from physical devices and metadevices. These drivers enable applications to treat a metadevice like a physical device. This type of driver is also called a  logical or pseudo driver.

Mirror

Disk mirroring is a feature used to guard against component failure by writing the same data to two or more disk drives at the same time.

Modem

Short for modulator-demodulator, a modem is a data communications equipment (DCE) device that translates (or modulates) information into signals that can be transmitted across phone lines. The signal is demodulated on the receiving end.

mount

The mount command logically attaches a file system, either local or remote, to the file system hierarchy.

Mount Point

A mount point is a directory in a file hierarchy at which a mounted file system is logically attached.

mountall

The mountall command is used to mount the file systems specified in a file system table. The file system table must be in a vfstab format.

mt

The magnetic tape control command sends commands directly to the tape drive. mt may be used to rewind, erase, and skip files on a tape device along with smoothing out tape tension (the retension option).

Multitasking

Multitasking is a feature of the Solaris computing environment that enables more than one tool or application to be used at a time. Multitasking enables the kernel to keep track of several processes simultaneously.

Multiuser

Multiuser is a feature of the Solaris computing environment that enables more than one user to access the same system resources.

Multivolume Backup

A multivolume backup is one where the data to be copied requires more than one tape cartridge or diskette.