DFTS: a novel distributed high fault-tolerance storage mechanism

  • Authors:
  • Qingsong Wei;Xianliang Lu;Xu Zhou

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Computer Science and Engineering of UEST of China, ChengDu, China;College of Computer Science and Engineering of UEST of China, ChengDu, China;College of Computer Science and Engineering of UEST of China, ChengDu, China

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Computerized data is becoming critical to the survival of an enterprise. RAID is a popular mechanism to offer fault-tolerance storage. But RAID can not work when two more disks fail and the distance it can reach is very limited. This paper presents a novel distributed high fault-tolerance storage mechanism called DFTS. DFTS makes use of disk space of the node in distributed network to build a public storage space which users can access like local disk. File is stored in form of original file fragments and their mutual XOR verification fragments among the nodes of the network. File is available even when a part of nodes fail. DFTS realizes long-distance fault-tolerance storage. In addition, performance of the DFTS is more than an order of magnitude higher than that of single computer. The experiments in this paper show that DFTS can offer high fault-tolerance and advanced performance.