Implementation and Performance Evaluation of an Object-Based Storage Device

Author

He, Shuibing ; Feng, Dan

Author_Institution

Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan

fYear

2007

fDate

24-24 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

129

Lastpage

136

Abstract

Object-based storage system (OBSS) has led to a new wave in network storage area . Object-based storage device (OSD) which is the cornerstone of OBSS plays a decisive role in the performance of the whole OBSS. This paper describes how we implemented an object-based storage device which adopts a unique hardware architecture based on switching fabric supporting parallel data transfer in multiple I/O channels, and a new object-based storage device file system (HustOSDFS) that can reduce the software overloads to achieve high performance. The experimental evaluation results show that the OSD performs well for system performance. Furthermore, the OSD provides characteristic of large capacity and low cost.

Keywords

file organisation; object-oriented methods; performance evaluation; storage area networks; hardware architecture; multiple I/O channels; network storage area; object-based storage device file system; parallel data transfer; Computer architecture; Costs; Fabrics; File systems; Hardware; Multimedia databases; Operating systems; Secure storage; Storage area networks; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os, 2007. SNAPI.International Workshop on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3097-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SNAPI.2007.11

Filename

4438058