File array storage architecture having file system distributed across a data processing platform

US6219693A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Adaptec, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Richard Napolitano · Hollis, US
• Herbert W. Silverman · Laguna Beach, US
• Chester Juzsczak · Merrimack, US
• Bryan Keith Panner · Windham, US
• Chris Franklin · Nashua, US
• Eric S. Noya · Groton, US
• Timothy Lee Hoskins · Amherst, US
• Stanley Luke · Sunnyvale, US
• Paul Richard Shaughnessy · Hollis, US
• Alexander C. McLeod · Hudson, US
• Randy M. Arnott · Mont Vernon, US
• Jeffrey T. Wong · Markham, CA

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 4, 1997
• Grant date: Apr 17, 2001
• Expiry date: Nov 4, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F16/10
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A file away storage architecture comprises a file system that is distributed across a data processing platform consisting of a host computer coupled to an adapter over a high-speed, low latency interface and an input/output subsystem that is located entirely on the adapter. The distributed nature of the architecture enables implementation of the file system in accordance with a modified client-server computing model; that is, the architecture includes a client file system executing on the host computer and a server file system executing on the adapter.