Maximizing sequential output in a disk array storage device

• Main Authors: Bachmat, Eitan, Ofek, Yuval, Lam, Tao Kai, Dubrovsky, Victoria, Michel, Ruben
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 24.06.2003

1. Field of the Invention Load balancing of activities on physical disk storage devices is accomplished by monitoring reading and writing operations to blocks of contiguous storage locations on the physical disk storage devices. A list of exchangeable pairs of blocks is developed based on size and f...