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Today’s Internet services demand the storage platform to possess high performance and simple programming interfaces. This paper presents the design and implementation of a distributed objects storage cluster system, which employs Network-Attached Object Storage Device as the low-level storage device to support structured-data directly to eliminate the problem of conventional storage systems. This system provides a unified, transparent and object-oriented view of the storage devices of the whole cluster and greatly simplifies distributed service development. Based on this system, an open source mail server is enhanced to be a distributed one while only a few source files are modified. Testing shows that the performance of this enhanced mail system can achieve 2/3 of the ideal upper limit, which is evidently higher than the original one based on file systems.
Supported by High Technology and Development Program of China (No. 2002AA1Z2103).
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Zhang, Y., Wang, D., Gao, C., Zheng, W. (2004). A JDO Storage Cluster Based on Object Devices. In: Jin, H., Pan, Y., Xiao, N., Sun, J. (eds) Grid and Cooperative Computing - GCC 2004 Workshops. GCC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3252. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30207-0_24
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