• Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.109-114
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• 2024

Enterprise storage systems that require high data reliability are applying RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) systems to recover from data loss and failure. In particular, RAID 5 ensures space efficiency and reliability by distributing parity across multiple storage devices. However, when storage devices have different capacities, RAID is built based on the smallest capacity storage device, resulting in wasted storage space. Therefore, research is needed to solve this resource management problem. In this paper, we propose a method for RAID grouping of each independent NAND flash memory block in a RAID consisting of SSD (Solid State Disk) with external SSDs as well as internal SSDs. This method is divided into a policy for delivering block information inside SSDs to the RAID system and a policy for RAID grouping of physical addresses delivered from the RAID system. This method allows us to maintain a RAID that does not waste resources when SSDs of different capacities are grouped into RAID5. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method through experiments.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.81-87
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• 2002

본 논문은 RAID 시스템의 몇 가지 구성에 대해 시뮬레이션을 통해 그 성능을 분석한다. 대용량의 RAID를 구성하기 위해서는 다수의 디스크가 필요한데 반해, 하나의 PCI의 버스에 연결될 수 있는 장치의 개수 제한되어 있어 이 경우 확장 PCI 버스가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 RAID 시스템의 하드웨어 구조, 특히 각 구성요소를 연결하는 PCI버스의 부하에 초점을 맞춘다. 버스 트랜잭션을 세 가지로 분류하고, 각각의 경우를 분석하고 평가한다. 이 분석으로부터 RAID 시스템의 두 가지 구조에 대해 성능을 계산하고 시뮬레이션 한 결과를 비교한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.30 no.7_8
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• pp.370-380
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• 2003

A large RAID system may consist of several PCI bus segments since a PCI bus segment can connect only a limited number of disks. In this paver, PCI bus transactions in a RAID system are classified in terms of the initiator and the target of the transaction. Also, the data transfer time of each transaction type is analyzed. By using the analysis results, read and write performance of two RAID system configurations are formulated. From simulation of the RAID system using the DEVS formalism, performance of the configurations are evaluated and compared with the analytical results while changing various system parameters.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.539-542
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• 2002

멀티미디어와 인터넷의 대중화가 야기한 급격한 데이터의 증가는 테라(Tera)바이트 이상의 대용량 저장공간과 대용량 정보의 효율적인 공유를 지원하는 스토리지 시스템을 요구하고 있으며 이를 위하여 SAN 기반의 스토리지 클러스터링 시스템들이 많이 사용되고 있다. 이러한 환경에서 하드웨어 또는 소프트웨어 RAID(Redundant Array of Independent Disks)는 대용량 정보의 고성능의 입출력과 신뢰성을 위해서 필수적이 되었다. 범용적인 RAID로는 RAE-0, RAID-1, RAID-5가 주로 사용되고 있으며 각각의 레벨은 장단점을 갖는다. 본 논문에서는 RAID-0와 RAID-1이 갖는 문제점들의 보완을 위하여 변형된 RAID 레벨인 RAID-SM을 제안한다. RAID-SM은 기존의 RAID-1이 가지는 데이터의 가용성을 유지하면서 추가적인 비용 없이 RAID-0의 우수한 입출력 성능을 얻기 위한 RAID-1의 변형된 방식이다. RAID-SM의 구현을 위하여 디스크상의 데이터의 배치 및 데이터 맵핑 탕식을 정의하고 RAID-SM에서의 I/O방법을 기술한다. 제안하는 RAID-SM은 멀티미디어나 GIS 데이터와 같은 읽기 연산 집약적인 시스템을 대상으로 하는 안정적인 레이드 방식이며 RAID-SM의 장점 및 성능은 본 논문에서의 실험을 통한 결과로서 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06a
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• pp.367-369
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• 2012

SSD는 고성능 저전력 스토리지 시스템으로 각광받고 있다. 본 연구에서는 SSD를 사용한 RAID 장치의 성능을 분석하는 연구를 수행하였다. 하드웨어 RAID 5 시스템에서 SSD의 개수, 스트라이프 크기, 리퀘스트 크기, NCQ의 값을 변화시키며 임의 읽기/쓰기 동작의 성능을 분석하였다. 실험 결과를 바탕으로 본 논문에서는 패리티를 기반으로 한 RAID 5 시스템에서 임의 쓰기 성능의 문제점을 보여주고, RAID 5 시스템의 구성에 대한 재고가 필요함을 보인다.

• Journal of Software Assessment and Valuation
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.95-100
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a simple hardware reporting method for errors in soft-RAID systems of Linux OS. Compared with other reporting methods, the proposed method displays error status intuitively without any additional access process such as log-in process or home-page access. In particular, the server actively displays the error status, so the administrator can take immediate action. In order to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method, the experimental circuit was constructed and the experimental results showed that the error was actively displayed when an error occurred in the storage device. As such, a soft-RAID system can perform almost the same function as a hardware RAID system, thereby ensuring server data reliability at low cost.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.11
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• pp.2849-2860
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• 1997

In this paper, we present efficient cache replacement policies for the software RAID file system. The performance of this policies is compared to two other policies previously proposed for conventional file systems and adapted for the software RAID file system. As in hardware RAID systems, we found small-writes to be the performance bottleneck in software RAID file systems. To tackle this small-write problem, we propose cache replacement policies. Using trace driven simulations we show that the proposed policies improve performance in the aspect of the average response time and the average system busy time.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.9A no.4
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• pp.451-458
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• 2002

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.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.158-163
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• 2003

When the number of disks array systems that contain multiple disk drives, system performance is limited by a bottleneck at a centralized controller at a communication path than uses a bus. A redundant array of inexpensive disks(RAID) consists of many disks to enable high performance and large capacity. We evaluate a scalable architecture called Autonomous network, in which the controller functions are distributed to all disk drives and each disk has autonomy in processing its tasks. Disks drives enable better scalability and more effective utilization of system resources than with a hierarchical system. Autonomous network provided high read/write performance throughput in proportion to the number of disks.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.1
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• pp.105-113
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• 2013

RAID systems have been widely used by connecting several disks in parallel structure. to resolve the delay and bottleneck of data I/O. Recently, SSD based RAID systems are emerging since SSDs have better I/O performance than HDD. However, endurance and power consumption problems due to frequent write operation in SSD based RAID system should be resolved. In this paper, we propose a de-duplication method of parity disk in SSD based RAID system with expensive update cost. The proposed method segments chunk of parity data into small pieces and removes duplicate data, therefore, it can reduce wear-leveling and power consumption by decreasing write operation for duplicated parity data. Experimental results show that bit update rate of the proposed method is 16% in total disk, 31% in parity disk less than that of existing method in RAID-6 system using EVENODD erasure code, and the power consumption of the proposed method is 30% less than that of existing method. Besides the proposed method is 12% in total disk, 32% in parity disk less than that of existing method in RAID-5 system, and the power consumption of the proposed method is 36% less than that of existing method.