Title :
A user-level approach to network attached storage
Author :
Sohan, Ripduman ; Hand, Steven
Author_Institution :
Comput. Lab., Cambridge Univ.
Abstract :
Modern network attached storage architectures suffer from poor performance, resource management and inflexibility. We examine the problems of current architectures and propose an alternative, built around the precept of doing network storage at user-level. We further examine some of the challenges associated with this unusual approach and provide some preliminary block layer results indicating our architecture results in better performance than current designs
Keywords :
storage management; block layer results; network attached storage architectures; resource management; user-level approach; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Costs; Kernel; Laboratories; Merging; Operating systems; Protocols; Resource management; Scalability;
Conference_Titel :
Local Computer Networks, 2005. 30th Anniversary. The IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2421-4
DOI :
10.1109/LCN.2005.145
