Eight-terabyte storage system by a new file system
Jinjun Xiong, Longfa Pan, Jing Pei, Desheng Meng · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2001
How an eight-terabyte CD-ROM storage system could behave as a standard CD-ROM peripheral device without a specifically designed device driver on any operation system is discussed in this paper. Because normal tertiary storage systems can hardly hold a capacity with terabyte magnitudes, so a new file system based on Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) is presented, which can address as many as eight-terabyte storage memories. An experimental system called 'Virtual CD-ROM' system of this idea is discussed, and some techniques critical to the fulfillment of such a system are considered.