LOGICALLY AND END-USER-SPECIFIC PHYSICALLY STORING AN ELECTRONIC FILE

摘要

A data processing system has a data storage system for storing electronic files. The data storage system enables the end-user to logically store different electronic files in the same file folder and to physically store different electronic files allocated to the same file folder at different ones of multiple physical storage devices. This approach supports optimizing a storage policy for this particular end-user of the electronic files, based on the storage properties of individual ones of the physical storage devices, within the context of the usage of the electronic files as contemplated by the end-user.