A high speed distributed file system for multimedia communications

Author

Chee, C.L. ; Erdogan, S.S. ; Ngo, C.W. ; Wong, C.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

22-26 Aug 1994

Firstpage

254

Abstract

Presents the features of HDFS, a High-speed Distributed File System. HDFS aims to provide storage to large files so that the read and write performance for such files does not degrade significantly compared to accesses for small files. One application of HDFS is to provide storage of multimedia files, where such files are expected to be large. The design of HDFS is based on three modules: the Large File Service (LFS), the Distributed File Service (DFS) and the Multimedia Library System (MLS). HDFS is implemented as an installable file system in the UNIX operating system kernel and can coexist with existing file systems

Keywords

Unix; distributed databases; multimedia communication; multimedia computing; Distributed File Service; HDFS; High-speed Distributed File System; Large File Service; Multimedia Library System; UNIX operating system kernel; installable file system; large file storage; multimedia communications; multimedia files; performance degradation; read performance; small file accesses; write performance; Bandwidth; Computer science; Degradation; File systems; Libraries; Multimedia communication; Multimedia computing; Multimedia systems; Resource management; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON '94. IEEE Region 10's Ninth Annual International Conference. Theme: Frontiers of Computer Technology. Proceedings of 1994

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1862-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.1994.369298

Filename

369298