File store method, file access method, and distributed processing system using such methods.

摘要

A method of storing a file in a distributed processing system having a plurality of data processing units (10, 20) with storage units (11 - 22), the data processing units being interconnected by a transmission medium (LAN), wherein a file having a set of data is divided in accordance with a physical minimum file division unit, and stored in the storage units. At least one of the data processing units is provided with a memory unit (file management table) (15, 25) for storing correspondence information between a logical store position of data of the file recognized by a program running on the distributed processing system, and a physical store position of the data actually stored in the storage unit. <IMAGE>