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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2006
Han-gyoo Kim, Irvine, CA (US);
Shin Hwan Hwang, Irvine, CA (US);
Han Kyu Lim, Seoul, KR;
Zhe Khi Pak, Moscow, RU;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for providing a storage medium accessible across a network to a host. The storage medium's operation is generally controlled by a network disk controller. The network disk controller may receive a packet from a remote host, decapsulate the packet, and act on the packet to either transmit data from a storage medium or write data to a storage medium. Generally, the network disk controller does not execute any file system. Rather, the file system for communication between the host and controller is executed by the host. The performance of the network disk controller generally matches that of a local (i.e., non-network) disk controller in terms of data access and writing.