Scalable storage architecture for multimedia image storage
Xiang Chen, Jiangling Zhang · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1998
This paper describes a scalable architecture model that is suitable for multimedia image storage. In the architecture, the storage system is connected with networks so that direct data transfer between the clients and the server is available. The clients can receive data from the storage subsystem directly without going through the server. Thus, the bottleneck of the server doesn't exist. The paper demonstrates the detailed storage architecture. Because of the new architecture, file system and lower level storage operations will change correspondingly. Therefore, corresponding file system support for the architecture is discussed.