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Design and Development of File System for Storage Area Networks

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2005 (ICCSA 2005)

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By merging network and channel interfaces, resulting interfaces allow multiple computers to physically share storage devices. A storage area network (SAN) is a high-speed special-purpose network (or subnetwork) that interconnects different kinds of data storage devices with associated data servers on behalf of a larger network of users. In SAN, computers service local file requests directly from shared storage devices. Direct device access eliminates the server machines as bottlenecks to performance and availability. Communication is unnecessary between computers, since each machine views the storage as being locally attached. SAN provides us to very large physical storage up to 64-bit address space, but traditional file systems can’t adapt to the file system for SAN because they have the limitation of scalability.

In this paper, we present architectures and features of SANtopia that allows multiple machines to access and share disk and tape devices on a Fibre Channel or SCSI storage network in Linux system. It performs well as a local file system, as a traditional network file system running over IP environments, and as a high performance cluster file system running over storage area networks like Fibre Channel. SANtopia provides a key cluster enabling technology for Linux, helping to bring the availability, scalability, and load balancing benefits of clustering to Linux.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Education, Seowon University, 231 Mochung-dong Heungduk-gu, Cheongju-shi Chungbuk, South Korea

    Gyoung-Bae Kim

  2. Internet Server Group, Digital Home Research Division, ETRI, 161 Gajung-dong, Yusung-gu, Daejeon, South Korea

    Myung-Joon Kim

  3. Dept. of Computer Science Engineering, Inha University, 250 Younghyun-dong, Nam-gu, Incheon, South Korea

    Hae-Young Bae

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

  3. William Norris Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA

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  4. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Antonio Laganá

  5. Institute of High Performance Computing, IHCP, 1 Science Park Road, 01-01 The Capricorn, Singapore Science Park II, 117528, Singapore

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  6. School of Computing, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea

    Youngsong Mun

  7. Clayton School of IT, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, Australia

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  8. OptimaNumerics Ltd, Belfast, United Kingdom

    Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan

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Kim, GB., Kim, MJ., Bae, HY. (2005). Design and Development of File System for Storage Area Networks. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2005. ICCSA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3483. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11424925_85

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