Application and user interaction with GPFS
There are four ways to interact with a GPFS file system.
You can interact with a GPFS file system
by using any of the following interfaces:
- The IBM Storage Scale management GUI as described in Introduction to IBM Storage Scale GUI.
- Operating system commands, which run at GPFS daemon initialization time or at file system mount time (as described in Operating system commands).
- Operating system calls, such as open(), from an application requiring access to a file that is controlled by GPFS (as described Operating system calls).
- GPFS commands as described in Command reference.
- GPFS programming interfaces as described in GPFS programming interfaces.
- IBM Storage Scale management API as described in IBM Storage Scale management API.