Research on the evolutionary storage system
Yude Wang, Changsheng M. Xie, Fen Wang, Lu Zheng-wu, Guosong Jiang · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2008
This paper introduces a storage system which can adjust its storage strategy automatically according to the current running environment, evolutionary storage system (ESS). In the evolutionary processes, ESS can automatically choose one system organizing strategy which fits for the current running environment best, to keep the dynamic balance of the whole system. ESS can always adapt to the request of current application, no matter the storage device is out of date or not. So the most remarkable character ESS shown is that the system will be better and better along with the running. The performance of ESS will increase gradually with the evolution. Three evolutionary ways, system physical structure evolution, system logical structure evolution and data distribution evolution were described and demonstrate separately.