Murata et al., 1997 - Google Patents

Wide-area-distributed disaster-tolerant file system for multimedia data storage

Murata et al., 1997

Document ID
10283228575992570135
Author
Murata S
Iwatsu S
Ueno M
Izawa N
Ishii K
Publication year
Publication venue
Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VI

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We propose a new disaster-tolerant file system for multimedia data storage. To protect against natural disasters by eliminating the possibility of simultaneous failure in multiple disks constituting a RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) system, our proposed file …
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