What kinds of resources does the SRB support?
Storage resources can be directories in Unix file systems, directories in Windows file systems, archival storage systems such as HPSS (and, previously, UniTree and DMF), binary large objects stored in a DBMS (DB2, Oracle, Illustra), database SQL-queriable objects in DB2 or Oracle, and tape library systems. Tape systems can be combined with disk cache into Compound Resources, and the SRB can function as a complete basic archival storage system. SRB includes a set of tape I/O functions and an interface to the STK tape library system.