DCFS: file service in commodity cluster dawning4000

Author

He, Jin ; Xiong, Jin ; Wu, Sining ; Lu, Yi ; Men, Dun

Author_Institution

Nat. Res. Center for Intelligent Comput. Syst., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China

fYear

2003

fDate

27-29 Aug. 2003

Firstpage

80

Lastpage

84

Abstract

We introduce the design and implementation of DCFS (Dawning Cluster File System), a cluster file system developed for the Dawning4000 LINUX clusters. DCFS provides the single name space and binary compatibility with local file system for users and applications on Dawning4000. In addition, it improves system manageability for administrators by embedded file system management considerations into DCFS implementation and provides an easy use interface. Important features of DCFS are presented, including a global management domain, a communication abstraction layer, pipelined file I/O, enhanced multitask capability in storage servers, and fault-tolerance strategy.

Keywords

Unix; fault tolerant computing; multiprogramming; pipeline processing; storage management; workstation clusters; DCFS; Dawning Cluster File System; Dawning4000; LINUX cluster; communication abstraction layer; embedded file system management; fault-tolerance strategy; global management domain; multitasking; pipelined file input-output; storage server; Computers; Costs; File servers; File systems; Helium; Intelligent systems; Linux; Memory; Protocols; Tiles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, 2003. PDCAT'2003. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7840-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PDCAT.2003.1236263

Filename

1236263