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Documentation Consistent Vocabulary

This issue serves as a central place to discuss vocabulary-related issues for the documentation. If you use a particular term to refer to a specific thing that might be useful for others to know (to ensure consistency), please comment below.

Common Vocabulary

  • archive: write a file to tape
  • retrieve: read a file from tape

from tape rest api document

  • stage: request that tape-stored files are made available with disk latency
  • release: Indicate that files previously staged through stage are no longer required with disk latency.
  • evict: Ask for immediate removal of disk copy (could be same as release)

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Edited by Niels Alexander Buegel