Patent ID: 7933938
Filing Date: 2011-04-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A file storing method of a file storage system, comprising: classifying a single file to be stored into at least one or more objects; classifying each of the at least one or more classified objects into pages, wherein the single file has at least three or more pages, wherein each of the pages are consecutively numbered with a non-repeating serial number; selecting only one storage device to record the entire single file among a plurality of storage devices connected through a network; allocating the one object having the at least two or more pages to the selected storage device; storing the at least two or more pages of the file of the one object allocated to the selected storage device by referencing a smallest non-repeating serial number and a largest non-repeating serial number of the pages being stored, and wherein the stored at least two or more pages being stored in the one object are stored with the pages having the non-consecutive non-repeating numbers; storing the remaining pages by allocating new object to a new storage device only after all of the pages of the single file are not stored; and setting metadata of the single file for managing information about the storage of the single file, wherein the setting metadata of the file for managing information comprises: configuring the metadata of the file by adding metadata of the object allocated in each storage device storing the pages.