Paper Info
Title
Design and development of file system for storage area networks
Abstract
By merging network and channel interfaces, resulting interfaces allow multiple computers to physically share storage devices. A storage area network (SAN) is a high-speed special-purpose network (or subnetwork) that interconnects different kinds of data storage devices with associated data servers on behalf of a larger network of users. In SAN, computers service local file requests directly from shared storage devices. Direct device access eliminates the server machines as bottlenecks to performance and availability. Communication is unnecessary between computers, since each machine views the storage as being locally attached. SAN provides us to very large physical storage up to 64-bit address space, but traditional file systems can't adapt to the file system for SAN because they have the limitation of scalability. In this paper, we present architectures and features of SANtopia that allows multiple machines to access and share disk and tape devices on a Fibre Channel or SCSI storage network in Linux system. It performs well as a local file system, as a traditional network file system running over IP environments, and as a high performance cluster file system running over storage area networks like Fibre Channel. SANtopia provides a key cluster enabling technology for Linux, helping to bring the availability, scalability, and load balancing benefits of clustering to Linux.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1007/11424925_85
ICCSA (4)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
scsi storage network,fibre channel,file system,computers service local file,high performance cluster file,large physical storage,data storage device,shared storage device,storage area network,share storage device,data storage,load balance,network file system
Conference
3483
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0302-9743
3-540-25863-9
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gyoung-Bae Kim1145.11
Myung-Joon Kim24635.21
Hae-Young Bae37831.47