A network based virtual disk system, iFlyDisk used a server by using it's disk or disk image file as a data source. iFlyDisk provided the data service for the clients, and create a disk(all the same as the server's) on the user's computer. The user uses this disk all the same as the disk on the server, such as disk partition, disk format and so on.
iFlyDisk provides virtual write technology, that is, the user may carry on some operation (read, write, etc.) wille using the disk, but all operations only affect himself/herself rather than affect the others using this disk.
Using the existing technologies of TCP/IP, LAN and Client/Server structure, adopt the technologies of virtual disk and network communication. These product are developed seperately and they share the storage system of the host workstation by TCP server on it.
· Transform the whole disk on server to the same virtual one on workstation.
· Transform one partition on server to a virtual hard disk on workstation, the disk has the same partition as the server
· Transform the CD-ROM on server to a virtual one on workstation.
· Transform the enantiomorphous files on server to virtual disk or virtual CD-ROM.
Here are some key features of "iFLyDisk SDK":
· High speed, about 80MBytes/S ~100MBytes/S in 1000MB Ethernet environment
· Mapping partitions on server to other computers
· Mapping a disk image file on server to disk drives on other computers
· Using the virtual disks is all the same as real ones, format, read files, write files and execute programs, etc
· By default, all the operations on clients will take effect locally, after remounted the virtual disk or restarted computer the data on the clients will be recovered, but also you can make one client as a operator which have full access rights and can modify server disk directly
· Clients can map a local image file to virtual disks that is, clients can use this system as a disk emulator without servers
· It can work within Internet environment
Limitations:
· Can only support 3 connections
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Added an option which user can select to save virtual write data
· Added an option to make an unformatted image
· Added an option for creating sparse file
· Added persistent devices (automount) management
· Improved virtual write speed
· Improved mount/unmount/automount mechanism
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