Pspace Inc.

Jae-Beom Cheon

Sun Choi

Joo-Hyun Kim

Bong-Joo Jin

Kyung-Soo Kim

Hyoung-Choul Kim

Young-Gyu Kim

Bong-Sik Sihn

Gu-Yong Lee

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for managing files in a distributed storage system. The apparatus and method for managing a file in a distributed storage system according to the present invention counts the number of inquiries on a file requested by a client; selects the file as a hot file if the number of inquiries counted in a certain counting period is larger than a hot file selection threshold value; and increases the number of copies of the file selected as a hot file or stores the file selected as a hot file in a storage device having a relatively good performance.

Apparatus and method for managing a file in a distributed storage system

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Jae-Beom Cheon