Storage Active Service: Model, Method and Practice

For storage system, data service only passively responds to data consumer's requests. With the increasing requirements of mass data storage and the development of the hardware technology of computer architecture, storage active service becomes a crucial research topic. How to utilize the computation power on the future storage device to provide high performance computation and data access has been a hot and challenging task. Storage object is a fundamental unit that comprises not only data but also attributes. Storage object has been proposed in the past, but its definition should be extended. The goals of the storage active service project are to combine and distill previous work into a simple and usable model, design a storage active service mechanism as an understandable extension to object, and most importantly build a working system - a system that augments conventional structured and unstructured data management with data, attributes and trigger as an integral part of the storage object. This paper provides numerous motivating practices for storage active service and lays out preliminary plans for the forecast mechanism based on psychology