Linux Storage Terminology

AFS:  Andrew distributed file system
ATA: Advanced Technology Attachment
ATAoE: ATA over Ethernet
BTRFS:  Butter FS
CAS: content-addressable storage
Ceph:
CIFS: Common Internet File System
CRC:  cyclic redundancy check
DAP: Data Access Protocol
DAS: Direct-attached storage
DIF: data integrity field
exofs:Extended Object File System
ext3: third extended file system
ext4: fourth extended file system
FC: Fibre Channel
FCoE: Fibre Channel over Ethernet
FCS: fixed-content storage
FUSE: Filesystem in Userspace
JFFS2: Journaling Flash File System version 2
GPFS:  General Parallel File System
HPC: high-performance computing
IDE: Integrated Drive Electronics
iSCSI: Internet SCSI
ISO: nternational Organization for Standardization
LBA: logical block addressing
LUN: Logical Unit Number
Lustre:  Linux clUSTER
LVM: Logical Volume Manage
NAS: Network-attached storage
NFS: Network File System
OSD: Object Storage Device
pNFS:  Parallel NFS
RAID: redundant array of independent disks
RDMA: remote direct memory access
RPC: remote procedure call
SAN: Storage area networks
SATA: Serial ATA
SAS: Serial attached SCSI
SCSI: Small Computer System Interface
SMB:  Server Message Block
SRP: SCSI RDMA Protocol
SSA: Serial Storage Architecture
SSD: solid-state disk
eSATA: external SATA
UBIFS: Unsorted Block Image File System
UDP: Universal Datagram Protocol
USB: Universal Serial Bus
VFS: virtual file system switch
XDR: external data representation
xHCI: Extensible Host Controller Interface
XIP: Execute-in-place
YAFFS2: Yet Another Flash File System version 2
ZFS: Zettabyte File System