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Method and apparatus for data storage using striping

  • US 20070271350A1
  • Filed: 07/31/2007
  • Published: 11/22/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus for data storage comprising:

  • a cluster of NFS (network file system) servers, each server having network ports for incoming file system requests and cluster traffic between servers, each server has a network element and a disk element; and

    a plurality of storage arrays in communication with the servers, the servers utilizing a striped file system for storing data for providing bandwidth to multiple disk elements, where the striped file system comprises a set of striped VFSes (virtual file systems) distributed among a number of disk elements of the cluster of servers, with one VFS of the set of striped VFSes per disk element, wherein a data file is striped among all the VFSes of the set of striped VFSes with different strips of the file'"'"'s data in different VFSes in the set of striped VFSes.

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