August 2001
Intermediate to advanced
700 pages
53h 4m
English
Yitzhak Birk, +972 4 829 4637, Electrical Engineering Department, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, ISRAEL. E-mail address: birk@ee.technion.ac.il
This paper jointly addresses the issues of load balancing, fault tolerance, responsiveness, agility, streaming capacity and cost-effectiveness of high-performance storage servers for data-streaming applications such as video-on-demand. Striping the data of each movie across disks in a “random” order balances the load while breaking any correlation between user requests and the access pattern to disks. Parity groups are of fixed-size, comprising consecutive blocks of a movie ...
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