The invention provides a method for utilizing
network storage data. The method includes the following steps: hashing is performed on IDs of data servers in a cloud platform storage
system according to a predefined hash
algorithm, and each data
server is distributed on a ring of a whole Hash value range; each data
server periodically sends a
heartbeat message to a host node, and the host node manages
topological information of a cloud platform; and a
client accesses the host node to obtain the
topological information of the cloud platform and cache locally, performs hashing calculation on file names, determines the data
server where a corresponding small file is and performs reading or writing operation. The invention proposes a novel small-file-oriented cloud platform storage
system and storage method, reduces the number of times of
network connection for continuously reading and writing
small files, storage is relatively lightweight,
delay is relatively short, the host node load is reduced,
service restoration is relatively fast after a failure, and availability of the whole storage
system is improved.