PowerScale OneFS API Reference

Term	Definition
Access point	Root path of the URL to the file system. You can define an access point for any directory in the file system.
Collection	Group of objects of a similar type. For example, all the user-defined quotas in the system make up a collection of quotas.
Data object	An object that contains content data, such as a file on the system
Namespace	The file system structure on the cluster
Object	Containers or data objects This term is also known as system configuration data that a user creates, or a global setting on the system. For example, a user-created object can be a file system snapshot, quota, share, export, logical unit, or synchronization policy. An object can also be global settings on the system, such as default share settings, HTTP server settings, snapshot subsystem settings, and so on.
Resource	An object, collection, or function that you can access by a URI.

OneFS API terminology