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What is a SRB Vault?

April 26, 2017SRB Vault

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What is a SRB Vault?

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SRB vault is a data repository system that SRB can maintain in any of the storage systems that it can access. For example, the SRB runningat sdsc (host: srb.sdsc.edu) runs a SRB vault in its Unix file system, and another SRB running at sdsc (host: hpss47.sdsc.edu) runs SRB vaults in HPSS, a unix file system and a DB2 database. SRB vaults provide a convenient storage area for storing data objects. A data object stored in a SRB vault is stored as a SRB-written object and its access is controlled through the MCAT catalog. This is different to legacy data objects that can be accessed by SRB but which are still owned by previous owners of the data. One can define SRB vaults in any storage device that can be accessed by a SRB server. In thecase of file systems such as Unix and HPSS, a separate directory is used for the purpose, and in case of databases such as Oracle, DB2 orIllustra, a system-defined table with LOB-space is used for the purpose.