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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1999
Yoshitake Shinkai, Kawasaki, JP;
Yoshihiro Tsuchiya, Kawasaki, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A file management system is capable of storing the data with a higher usability (reliability) and a higher performance by structuring files for arranging in redundancy the data on a plurality of disk devices, and utilizing characteristics of a file management program (file system) recognizing a mutual relationship between sets of data stored in the plurality of disk devices. The file management system includes a plurality of disk devices and managed in the form of a disk pool, of which at least two disk devices are dynamically selected from the disk pool, for constituting a plurality of files for storing in redundancy any one set of data of user data and meta data for managing how the user data are used, and a file system constituting a part of an operating system of a host computer for managing the plurality of disk devices as the disk pool and managing en bloc the files, based on the meta data.
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