公开(公告)号：EP1346285A1

公开(公告)日：2003-09-24

申请号：EP01995392.6

申请日：2001-12-05

申请人： Spinnaker Networks, Inc

发明人： KAZAR, Michael, L. ,  NYDICK, Daniel, S. ,  SANZI, Richard, N., Jr. ,  GOHH, Fred ,  BIANCHINI, Ronald, P., Jr. ,  SPEISER, Benjamin

IPC分类号： G06F12/00 ,  G06F12/08

CPC分类号： H04L67/1097 ,  G06F3/0601 ,  G06F17/30091 ,  G06F17/30106 ,  G06F17/30115 ,  G06F2003/0697

摘要： A system implementing method for responding to file system requests having file IDs comprising V, a volume identifier specifying the file system being accessed, and R, an integer, specifying the file within the file system being accessed. The system (10) includes D disk elements (12) storing files; a switching fabric (14) connected to the D disk elements (12) to route requests to a corresponding disk element; and N network elements (16) each having a mapping function that, for every value of V, specifies one or more elements (12) from the set D that store the data specified by volume V, which receives the requests, and causes the switching fabric to route the requests by their file ID according to the mapping function.