US Patent 7194532 Distributed file management method and program therefor

In a management information generating step, management information of disks opened by a plurality of peers connected through a network is generated. In an access request step, another peer which opens a disk is selected from the management information, and a file is requested to be stored or read. In an access execution step, the file is stored or read in response to the storage request or the read request from the other peer.