A Modular and Extensible Netork Storage Architecture [Hardcover]

This 1995 book defined a multi-service storage architecture that could meet the needs of applications and support multiple file abstractions.Contemporary distributed file systems can only support single file abstractions. Nowadays, network storage devices have to be able to accommodate new information media such as digital audio and video, with data radically different in characteristics to traditional text and binary that contemporary file systems are optimised for.Dr Lo describes a new multi service storage architecture that meets the needs of existing and emerging applications and can support multiple file abstractions. He also explores a number of related design issues.Contemporary distributed file systems can only support single file abstractions. Nowadays, network storage devices have to be able to accommodate new information media such as digital audio and video, with data radically different in characteristics to traditional text and binary that contemporary file systems are optimised for.Dr Lo describes a new multi service storage architecture that meets the needs of existing and emerging applications and can support multiple file abstractions. He also explores a number of related design issues.Contemporary distributed file systems are monolithic and only support single file abstractions. Nowadays, as Sai-Lai Lo explains, network storage devices have to accommodate new information media such as digital audio and video, with data radically different from the traditional text and binary code that contemporary file systems are optimized for. In this book, the author shows how, by combining new and traditional media, information can be recorded and presented in the most suitable way, and the value of a piece of information can be further enhanced by linking together related pieces. However, composite data and cross-reference between data items raise a number of system issues that have not been addressed properly before. Lo defines a new multiservice storage al³±