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RAID-II: a high-bandwidth network file server

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K. W. Shirriff,

D. A. Patterson,

G. A. GibsonAuthors Info & Claims

ISCA '94: Proceedings of the 21st annual international symposium on Computer architecture

Pages 234 - 244

https://doi.org/10.1145/191995.192031

Published: 01 April 1994 Publication History

Abstract

In 1989, the RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks) group at U. C. Berkeley built a prototype disk array called RAID-I. The bandwidth delivered to clients by RAID-I was severely limited by the memory system bandwidth of the disk array' s host workstation. We designed our second prototype, RAID-H, to deliver more of the disk array bandwidth to file server clients. A custom-built crossbar memory system called the XBUS board connects the disks directly to the high-speed network, allowing data for large requests to bypass the server workstation. RAID-II runs Log-Structured File System (LFS) software to optimize performance for bandwidth-intensive applications.The RAID-II hardware with a single XBUS controller board delivers 20 megabytes/second for large, random read operations and up to 31 megabytes/second for sequential read operations. A preliminary implementation of LFS on RAID-II delivers 21 megabytes/second on large read requests and 15 megabytes/second on large write operations.

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ISCA '94: Proceedings of the 21st annual international symposium on Computer architecture

April 1994

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ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News Volume 22, Issue 2
Special Issue: Proceedings of the 21st annual international symposium on Computer architecture (ISCA '94)
April 1994
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