An Implementation and Performance Evaluation of a RAID System Ra on Embedded Linux


The KIPS Transactions:PartA, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 451-458, Dec. 2002
10.3745/KIPSTA.2002.9.4.451,   PDF Download:

Abstract

In this article, we present, design, and implement a software and hardware for an embedded RAID system. The merits and drawbacks of our system are presented by performance evaluation. The proposed hardware system consists of three fibre channel controllers for the interface with fibre channel disks and hosts. Embedded Linux in which a RAID software is implemented is ported to the hardware. A SCSI target mode device driver and a target mode SCSI module are designed for that our RAID system is considered as a block device to a host computer. Linux Multi-device is used as RAID functions of this system. A data cache module is implemented for high performance and the interconnection between Linux Multi-device and the target mode SCSI module. The RAID 5 module of Multi-device is modified for improvement of read performance. The benchmark shows that the new RAID 5 module is superior to the original one in overall performance.


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[IEEE Style]
S. H. Baek and C. W. Park, "An Implementation and Performance Evaluation of a RAID System Ra on Embedded Linux," The KIPS Transactions:PartA, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 451-458, 2002. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTA.2002.9.4.451.

[ACM Style]
Sung Hoon Baek and Chong Won Park. 2002. An Implementation and Performance Evaluation of a RAID System Ra on Embedded Linux. The KIPS Transactions:PartA, 9, 4, (2002), 451-458. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTA.2002.9.4.451.