METHOD OF WRITING A FILE TO A PLURALITY OF MEDIA AND A STORAGE SYSTEM THEREOF

摘要

According to one embodiment, a method for writing a file to a plurality of media includes loading a parent medium into a first drive to retrieve ID information about the parent medium from metadata, writing a first file part to the parent medium and, at about a same time, saving a file name, attribute information, and attribute information about the first file part to the parent medium as metadata, loading a child medium into a second drive in order to write subsequent file parts and retrieving ID information about the child medium from metadata, writing the subsequent file parts to the child medium and, at about a same time, saving the ID information and attribute information about the subsequent file parts to the parent medium, and additionally saving the ID information about the child medium and the attribute information about the subsequent file parts as metadata in the child medium.

主权项

1. A method for writing a file to a plurality of media in a storage system that comprises at least two drives, the plurality of media being identified as a parent medium and at least one child medium, the method comprising:
loading the parent medium into a first drive to retrieve identification (ID) information about the parent medium from metadata stored thereon; writing a first file part of a file to the parent medium and at about a same time, saving a file name, attribute information about the file, and attribute information about the first file part to the parent medium as metadata; keeping the parent medium loaded in the first drive until all subsequent file parts of the file are completely written to the at least one child medium; loading a child medium into a second drive in order to write one or more subsequent file parts of the file and retrieving ID information about the child medium from metadata stored thereon; writing the one or more subsequent file parts to the child medium and, at about a same time, saving the ID information and attribute information about the one or more subsequent file parts stored to the child medium as metadata to the parent medium; and additionally saving the ID information about the child medium and the attribute information about the one or more subsequent file parts stored to the child medium as metadata in the child medium.