URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCA.1994.288146
Bibtex Entry:
@inproceedings{1994-Drapeau-isca, Author = “Drapeau, Ann L. and Shirriff, Ken and Hartman, John and Miller, Ethan L. and Seshan, Srinivasan and Katz, Randy H. and Lutz, Ken and Patterson, David A. and Lee, Edward K. and Chen, Peter M. and Gibson, Garth A.”, title = “RAID-II: A High-Bandwidth Network File Server”, year = “1994”, isbn = “0818655100”, publisher = “IEEE Computer Society Press”, address = “Washington, DC, USA”, month = “April”, url = “https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCA.1994.288146”, doi = “10.1109/ISCA.1994.288146”, booktitle = “International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)”, pages = “234–244”, numpages = “11”, location = “Chicago, Illinois, USA”, series = “ISCA ‘94”, category = “[File Systems]”, 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.” }