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Wed, 27 Jun 2007

Distributed storing dilemma.


I have a qustion about the way data should be organized in distributed storage.
There are two possible ways:

  • sequential data is stored lineary - first storage is filled until it is full, then next one and so on. Of course error recovery codes usage requires another storages to be used, but amount of CRC data is usually noticebly smaller than amount of actual data.
  • sequential data is distributed among several storages according to some algorithm (like round-robin).
The former allows to increase random access speed, the latter - sequential access. Getting into account that even 1Gbit network has about two times faster bulk transfer speed than modern disks, priority of this issue increases.
Likely round-ribin writing is a good candidate for first implementation.

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