对象属性控制存储策略研究.pdf

列的数据布局和应用负载的特征入手，通过考察两者之间的关系，提出根据负载动 态选择RAID 级别和分条单元大小的数据放置策略。 应用的特征以属性来表示，必须通过一定途径到达设备才能为设备所用。以 SCSI OSD 协议为基础，建立属性的两种传递机制。一种是调用专门的应用程序接 口直接提供属性信息，存储设备根据属性直接做出存储策略选择。另一种是应用程 序提供文件系统层的信息，设备内部根据文件的属性做出相关预测，并用于策略选 择。比较而言，前者容易实现，而后者要求新的OSD 文件系统，好处是不需要修改 应用程序。同时还给出了三个属性页的定义作为OSD 标准扩展提议。 最后，设计实现了符合T10 OSD 标准协议的原型系统（iSCSI-OSD-RAID ）。iSCSI 协议一直是IP 存储的推动力量，已经发展比较成熟。这里利用iSCSI 协议作为OSD 命令的传输层，加快了系统的实现过程。同时，以一个正在进行的RAID 控制器项 目为基础，增加了新的对象存储管理模块，最终实现了OSD 接口的磁盘阵列，并验 证了属性控制的数据放置策略。 关键词：对象 存储 属性 磁盘阵列 存储策略 II Abstract An ideal storage architecture would provide strong security, data sharing across platforms, high performance, and scalability in terms of the number of devices and clients. The three storage architectures in common use today are direct-attached storage (DAS), storage area networks (SANs), and network-attached storage (NAS), they cannot meet all of these requirments. Recent industry and academic research suggests a shift in storage technology, in which devices evolve from relatively unintelligent and externally managed to intelligent, self-managed, and aware of the storage applications they serve. However, creating such an intelligent device requires a more expressive interface. Many in the industry believe that an interface based on storage objects can be the answer. A storage object is a logical collection of bytes on a storage device, which can be regarded as the convergence of two technologies: files and blocks. Files provide user applications with a higher-level storage abstraction that enables secure data sharing across different operating system platforms; and blocks offer fast, scalable access to shared data. Providing direct, file-like access to storage devices is therefore the key c