Advances in robotic devices and storage media now make it possible to design near-line automated storage systems. These systems aim to provide responsive performance to users of tertiary storage devices. The Jaquith system is a prototype archive server that lets network users archive their own files using automated storage. It provides semi-interactive file access to its clients by combining a high-density robotic tape system with disk-based indexing.
Jaquith presents an FTP interface whereby whole files are moved between the client and its storage archive. Each client's archive is separately governed to provide independent namespaces, added security, and parallel operation. A wildcard query mechanism lets users manipulate arbitrary subsets of their files. Two important aspects of the query system are abstracts, text tags that can be associated with files, and versions, date-stamps that are applied to archived files.
Jaquith throughput is about 135 KB/second when archiving small (10 KB) user files to disk buffers. The use of synchronous disk writes by the server to ensure durability of each user file degrades throughput to 40 KB/second. The performance when writing disk buffers to Exabyte or Metrum tape is severely limited by the time to write a hardware filemark. Consequently, it is important to write several megabytes of data between filemarks for good performance.
Title
The Jaquith Archive Server
Published
1992-09-01
Full Collection Name
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences Technical Reports
Other Identifiers
CSD-92-701
Type
Text
Extent
35 p
Archive
The Engineering Library
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