The HERMES file system is state-of-the-art file system designed to handle multimedia streaming workload in consumer electronics
platform. The design objective of HERMES is to minimize the delay and the delay variance of I/O request in the sequential workload. File organization, meta data structure, unit of storage, or etc. are elaborately
tailored to achieve this objective. Further, HERMES provides a number of API’0s specific to mpeg-4 file format. It can greatly
facilitate the development of multimedia applications. For the seamless integration with the existing application, HERMES
file system is developed under virtual file system(VFS) layer. Prototype of HERMES file system is implemented on Linux operating system. Our benchmark test shows that HERMES file
system exhibits suprior performance than EXT2 file system.
Keywords Multimedia - Streaming - File System - UFS - Scheduling
This work was supported by Korea Research Foundation Grant(KRF-2000-003-E00322.