Design and Implementation of a High-Speed File Server Based on PC-UNIX

Tetsuo TSUJIOKA; Kazuaki OBANA; Tetsuya ONODA

Design and Implementation of a High-Speed File Server Based on PC-UNIX

Tetsuo TSUJIOKA, Kazuaki OBANA, Tetsuya ONODA

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Recent attractive high-speed networks require network file servers with high-speed read performance to deliver huge multimedia files, like voice or movie files. This paper proposes new design and implementation techniques that yield high-speed file servers based on UNIX. The techniques are request reduction, in which contiguous blocks on UNIX file system (UFS) are gathered for reducing the number of command requests from the file system to the device driver, and a direct access method for cutting through the buffer cache mechanism. A file server prototype based on a general-purpose personal computer (PC) is constructed and its performance is evaluated. The preliminary results show that the prototype achieves high-speed file read performance in excess of 100 Mbytes/s even on an OpenBSD PC-UNIX system with 3 RAID controllers and 9 hard drives in RAID level 0 configuration.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E82-C No.12 pp.2191-2200

Publication Date: 1999/12/25

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Tetsuo TSUJIOKA, Kazuaki OBANA, Tetsuya ONODA, "Design and Implementation of a High-Speed File Server Based on PC-UNIX" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics, vol. E82-C, no. 12, pp. 2191-2200, December 1999, doi: .
Abstract: Recent attractive high-speed networks require network file servers with high-speed read performance to deliver huge multimedia files, like voice or movie files. This paper proposes new design and implementation techniques that yield high-speed file servers based on UNIX. The techniques are request reduction, in which contiguous blocks on UNIX file system (UFS) are gathered for reducing the number of command requests from the file system to the device driver, and a direct access method for cutting through the buffer cache mechanism. A file server prototype based on a general-purpose personal computer (PC) is constructed and its performance is evaluated. The preliminary results show that the prototype achieves high-speed file read performance in excess of 100 Mbytes/s even on an OpenBSD PC-UNIX system with 3 RAID controllers and 9 hard drives in RAID level 0 configuration.
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