Design and implementation of a fibre channel network driver for SAN-attached RAID controllers

Author

Namgoong, Jae-Chang ; Park, Chan-Ik

Author_Institution

Syst. Software Lab., Pohang Inst. of Sci. & Technol., South Korea

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

477

Lastpage

483

Abstract

Fibre channel SAN (storage area network) is considered to be a promising solution to address storage problems caused by the sheer volume of data and their management. To adopt this new storage environment, we design and implement a high performance fibre channel network driver for SAN-attached RAID controllers in a real-time operating system. We describe the architecture of the fibre channel driver which consists of two modes; a target mode and an initiator mode. An exception handling mechanism for enduring a disk failure is also given. Lastly, we measured the performance of the fibre channel driver. Testing results reveal a moderately successful performance of the fibre channel driver

Keywords

RAID; exception handling; local area networks; network operating systems; performance evaluation; real-time systems; SAN-attached RAID controllers; data management; disk failure; exception handling; fibre channel SAN; fibre channel network driver; performance evaluation; real-time operating system; storage area network; Communication system control; Computer architecture; Control systems; Microprogramming; Operating systems; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber testing; Real time systems; Storage area networks; System software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2001. ICPADS 2001. Proceedings. Eighth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyongju City

ISSN

1521-9097

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1153-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPADS.2001.934856

Filename

934856