OpenVault™ Application Programmer's Guide

Document Number: 007-3216-005

1.5 Edition

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Silicon Graphics, SGI, the SGI logo, and IRIX are registered trademarks, and Altix, OpenVault, Performance Co-Pilot, and SGI ProPack are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc, in the United States and/or other countries worldwide.

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Cover design by Sarah Bolles, Sarah Bolles Design, and Dany Galgani, SGI Technical Publications.

Record of Revision

Revision 001December 1997 
Original publication.

Revision 002September 1998 
Incorporates information in support of the OpenVault release 1.2.

Revision 003November 2000 
Incorporates information in support of the OpenVault release 1.4 for systems running on the IRIX release 6.2 with License Tools 2.1.1 or higher, IRIX release 6.4 with License Tools 3.0 or higher, or IRIX release 6.5, which includes the appropriate License Tools.

Revision 004January 2002 
Incorporates information in support of the OpenVault release 1.4.1 which runs on IRIX systems release 6.5.14 with patch (see the Release Notes for the specific patch number), IRIX release 6.5.15, or later.

Revision 005June 2003 
Incorporates information in support of the OpenVault release 1.5 which runs on IRIX systems release 6.5.15 and later and SGI ProPack for Linux, version 2.2