LVM Version 2.0 Volume Groups in HP-UX 11i v3 (September 2008)

Glossary
DSF
Device Special File. A file associated with an I/O device. DSFs are read and written the same as
ordinary files, but requests to read or write are sent to the associated device.
LUN
A SCSI logical unit. This refers to an end storage device such as a disk, tape, floppy, or CD. This is the
logical unit itself and does not represent the path to the logical unit.
Metadata
The on-disk structures that LVM uses to manage a volume group. This space is not available for
application data.
KB
A kilobyte unit of information equal to 2
10
or 1024 bytes
MB
A megabyte unit of information equal to 2
20
or 1,048,576 bytes
GB
A gigabyte unit of information equal to 2
30
or 1,073,741,824 bytes
TB
A terabyte unit of information equal to 2
40
or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes
PB
A petabyte unit of information equal to 2
50
or 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes
30