Towards a Semantic, Deep Archival File System

Mahalingam, Mallik ; Tang, Chunqiang ; Xu, Zhichen

HP Development Company

关键词: semantic archival;    deep archival storage;    P2P;    Sedar;    semantic retrieval;   

RP-ID  :  HPL-2002-199

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: HP Labs

【 摘 要 】

We advocate the need for integrating semantic information into a file system. We demonstrate the benefits of this in Sedar, a deep archival file system. Sedar is the first archival file system that integrates semantic storage and retrieval capabilities. In addition, Sedar introduces several novel features: the notion of semantic-hashing to reduce the storage consumption that is robust against misalignment of documents; virtual snapshots of the namespace, and conceptual deletions of files and directories. Sedar exposes a semantic catalogue that allows other semantic-based tools (e.g., visualization and statistical analysis) to be built. It uses a decentralized P2P storage utility enabling horizontal scalability. 6 Pages