Storage Architectures for Digital Imagery
Harrick M. Vin, Prashant J. Shenoy · 2001
Emerging multimedia applications differ from conventional distributed applications in the type of data they store, transmit, and process, and also in the requirements they impose on the networks and operating systems. In this chapter, the focus is on the problem of designing storage servers that can meet the requirements of these emerging applications. The techniques for designing a storage server for digital imagery and video streams are described and then the architectural issues in incorporating these techniques into a general-purpose file system are examined. The chapter concludes by noting that a quality-of-service (QoS) aware file system is just one piece of the end-to-end infrastructure required to support emerging distributed applications.