Author_Institution :
Inst. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Central South Univ., Changsha, China
Abstract :
Faced with mass storage demand in the area of high performance computing, video monitoring, IPTV and multimedia, storage technology have no choice but to be developed rapidly on the basis of current conditions. Network cluster storage technology founded on cluster storage system is most popular storage method to solve mass storage problem at present. Intelligent network disk (IND) is a novel idea of storage system architecture. IND cluster is a new way for mass storage. In order to realize IND storage function and reflect its characteristics such as mass, speed, security, scalability and low-price, some of key techniques, i.e. self-bootload, linux kernel portability and start, file management, disk mounting, intelligent control routine, fault tolerance and recovery and IND combination pattern are described in the paper.
Keywords :
Linux; disc storage; fault tolerance; file organisation; intelligent networks; memory architecture; storage area networks; system recovery; IND cluster; IND storage function; IPTV; disk mounting; fault recovery; fault tolerance; file management; high performance computing; intelligent control routine; intelligent network disk storage system design; linux kernel portability; mass storage problem; multimedia technology; network cluster storage technology; self-bootload; storage system architecture; video monitoring; Computer architecture; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; File systems; Kernel; Linux; Registers; IND cluster; embedded device; filesystem; intelligent network disk (IND); mass storage;
