| English | German |
| buffer control block | Pufferkontrollblock (An opaque structure in the cache manager that maintains state as a file system pins and releases data in the cache) |
| command control block | Befehlskontrollblock (A specifically formatted information set used in the IBM Token Ring environment that is transmitted from the application program to the adapter support software to request an operation) |
| context control block | Kontextkontrollblock (An internal file system structure in which a file system maintains the per-file object state for an open instance of a file) |
| directory control block | Verzeichniskontrollblock (An internal NT file system (NTFS) structure in which the file system maintains the state for an open instance of a directory file) |
| file control block | Dateikontrollblock (A small block of memory temporarily assigned by a computer's operating system to hold information about an opened file. A file control block typically contains such information as the file's identification, its location on a disk, and a pointer that marks the user?s current (or last) position in the file) |
| information control block | Informationskontrollblock (A control node in Universal Disk Format containing metadata describing file and directory structures) |
| map control block | Zuordnungskontrollblock (A structure that file systems use to map the virtual block numbers (VBNs) for a file to the corresponding logical block numbers (LBNs) on the disk) |
| network control block | Netzwerkkontrollblock (NetBIOS data structures that contain information about the command to perform an optional post routine, an optional event handle, and a pointer to a buffer that is used for messages or other data) |
| processor control block | Prozessorkontrollblock (An extension of the processor control region (PCR)) |
| verb control block | Verbkontrollblock (A structure made up of variables which identifies the verb to be executed, supplies information to be used by the verb, and contains information returned by the verb when execution is complete) |
| volume control block | Volumekontrollblock (An opaque structure in which a file system maintains state information about a mounted volume) |
| volume map control block | Volumezuordnungs-Kontrollblock (An opaque structure that stores virtual block number (VBN) to logical block number (LBN) mappings for an a volume file of a file system) |