M

majority consensus algorithm, 463, 465

makefile, 391

map, 396

configuration files, 417

files, 437

direct, 433

indirect, 433

master, 433, 434

names, direct and indirect, 439

passwd, 375

mapping

device names and, 162

instance device names and physical device names, 164

master boot record (MBR), 85

mboot, 99

media, accessing with volume management, 155

media access (MAC) addresses, 315, 325, 328, 329, 336, 349, 353, 355

Ethernet machine and, 330

network addressing

broadcast address, 331

multicast address, 331–332

unicast address, 331

memory, test, 38

memory-based file systems, 128

cache file system (CacheFS), 123

loopback file system (LOFS), 123

process file system (PROCFS), 123

temporary file system (TEMPFS), 123

Microsoft

DOS, 6

Windows, 6

mirror, 463

building, 458, 458–463, 464, 465, 466

from mounted and unmounted files, 459

one-way (only one submirror), 460

RAID and, 454

volume, striped, 457

mirroring and unmirroring, 459–462

unmirroring, mounted file systems, 461–462

MIT, 6

mounted file systems

MNTFS, 110

mounting and unmounting

automatic

with/etc/vfstab, 151–152

manual, 152–154

CD-ROMs and, 162

commands for, 152

mount point, 170, 291, 433

mouse, configuring, 86–87, 92

Multiplexed Information and Computing Service (MULTICS), 6

AT&T Bell Labs, 6

General Electric and, 6

multiterabyte file systems, Solaris 10 and, 122

multiuser and multitasking system, 6, 13

multiuser mode, 159

boot procedure, 150