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- From: mao@triplerock.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch.storage,comp.databases
- Subject: Re: Info on large, slow storage wanted (jukeboxes, etc.)
- Date: 3 Sep 1992 16:23:24 GMT
- Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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- In <1992Aug29.210553.8744@rhein-main.de>, From: vhs@rhein-main.de
- (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai) writes:
-
- > I need to design a retrieval system for ~15TB of data ...
- >
- > Any kind of information is greatly appreciated (hints, pointers, ideas, etc.)
-
- my master's work at berkeley was on how to incorporate tertiary storage
- into a database system cleanly. i changed a bunch of internal interfaces,
- defined a new abstraction like the file system switch, and added support
- for a 327 gigabyte sony optical disk worm jukebox.
-
- under this architecture, the database system manages the tertiary storage
- device directly, rather than using an external file system interface to
- it. the advantage is that the dbms can make intelligent clustering,
- caching, and prefetching decisions, and can consider optical device
- performance characteristic (like very long pick times) when it optimizes
- a query.
-
- the jukebox storage manager uses a magnetic disk cache and extent-based
- allocation to speed up accesses to data.
-
- a description of the architecture is included in the postgres papers,
- available by anon ftp from postgres.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.149.1) in
- pub/postgres-papers.tar.Z.
-
- this won't answer all your questions; in particular, you would have to
- figure out clustering and caching policies to guarantee the performance
- bounds you list. it may help you out in identifying problems with these
- devices and things you need to think about if you're designing your own
- storage manager.
- mike olson
- project sequoia 2000
- uc berkeley
- mao@cs.berkeley.edu
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