Journal of South China University of Technology (Natural Science Edition) ›› 2008, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (1): 1-7.

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Design of an Intelligent Network Disk File System

Zhao Yue-long  Wang Wen-feng  Zeng Wen-ying  Song Wei   

  1.  School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, Guangdong, China
  • Received:2006-11-06 Online:2008-01-25 Published:2008-01-25
  • Contact: 赵跃龙（1958-），男，教授，博士生导师，主要从事计算机体系结构、网络存储系统、计算机网络与通信方面的研究． E-mail:ylzhaol@scut．edu．cn
  • About author:赵跃龙（1958-），男，教授，博士生导师，主要从事计算机体系结构、网络存储系统、计算机网络与通信方面的研究．
  • Supported by:

    国家自然科学基金资助项目（60573145）;广州市科技计划项目（2007J1-C0401）

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Abstract:

In the common network storage system, each disk drive can not automatically work as an initiator and can not balance the workload. In order to solve this problem, this paper puts forward an intelligent network disk （IND） architecture and a novel design scheme of the intelligent network disk file system （INDFS）. The key technologies of the INDFS, such as the file system organization, the file route table, the system command layer, the basic operation algorithm and the file name space, are then described in detail, and the performances of the INDFS are finally tested. The results indicate that the proposed INDFS is flexible and scaleable because the clients can access the IND storage system at a file level.

Key words: intelligent network disk, file system , file route table, system command layer, file name space