MassStorageSystems.pptVIP

12.* Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne ?2005 Operating System Concepts Chapter 12-2: Mass-Storage Systems Overview of Mass Storage Structure – have spent lots of time here. Chapter 12-2: ? Disk Attachment ? Disk Scheduling Chapter 12-3: Disk Management Swap-Space Management RAID Structure Disk Attachment Stable-Storage Implementation Tertiary Storage Devices Operating System Issues Performance Issues Disk Attachment Disk Attachment Essentially two approaches: 1. Host-attached storage – typical on small systems 2. Networked-attached storage – storage via a remote host in a distributed file system. Disk Attachment – Host Attached Storage (1 of 2) Host-attached storage accessed through I/O ports talking to I/O busses Typical attachment is the IDE I/O bus architecture (or ATA) This, however, only supports two drives per I/O bus, which may be acceptable in many environments. IDE is simply an abbreviation of either Intelligent Drive Electronics or Integrated Drive Electronics, depending on whom you ask. An IDE interface is an interface for mass storage device, in which the controller is integrated into the disk or CD-ROM drive. Although this really refers to a general technology, most people use the term to refer the ATA specification, which uses this technology. Disk Attachment – Host Attached Storage (2 of 2) SCSI architecture itself is a bus that can support up to 16 devices typically on one ribbon cable. These sixteen devices may consist of the controller card in the host (the SCSI initiator) and up to 15 storage devices (SCSI targets). Showed this picture is last set of slides. Most SCSI targets are SCSI disks, The SCSI protocol allows addressing of up to eight logical units in each SCSI target. The SCSI architecture is very powerful. “Logical units” are often used to direct commands to components of a RAID array or components of a removable media library Disk Attachment – Network-Attached Storage Network-attached storage (NAS) is a special-purpose stor