A Reliable Scheme for Cluster Storage System

Author

Li, Xu ; Xie, Changsheng ; Wei, Qinqi ; Cao, Qiang

Author_Institution

Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan

fYear

2007

fDate

29-31 Oct. 2007

Firstpage

394

Lastpage

397

Abstract

An important issue in the design of large-scale cluster storage systems is their vulnerability to nodes crash and network failures. To explore the feasibility of implementing a reliable, high performance distributed cluster storage system, we adopt a reliable scheme that data are distributed across storage nodes using erasure coding with small low-density parity-check (LDPC) code. We implement our new scheme in RSC, a proof-of-concept reliable cluster storage system, along with two other well known RAID-1 and RAID-5 schemes. Performance test results show that such a reliable scheme can provide high reliability while keeping the performance overhead small.

Keywords

distributed processing; parity check codes; software reliability; storage management; RAID-1; RAID-5; distributed cluster storage system; erasure coding; low-density parity-check code; network failures; nodes crash; reliable scheme; Availability; Bandwidth; File systems; Laboratories; Parity check codes; Peer to peer computing; Performance analysis; Redundancy; Reed-Solomon codes; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semantics, Knowledge and Grid, Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shan Xi

Print_ISBN

0-7695-3007-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3007-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SKG.2007.84

Filename

4438578