Quality of service knobs for visual data storage

At least one non-transitory machine accessible storage medium having instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed on a machine, cause the machine to:

• receive a request from an application to write an image to a data storage system, wherein the request comprises one or more quality of service parameters indicating a level of service requested by the application for writing the image to the data storage system;
• partition the image into a plurality of image parts, wherein each image part of the plurality of image parts comprises a corresponding portion of the image;
• upload, via a communication interface, the plurality of image parts to the data storage system in parallel, wherein if the one or more quality of service parameters indicate that the level of service requested by the application comprises low latency:
• a plurality of redundant copies of each image part of the plurality of image parts is to be uploaded to the data storage system in parallel;
• and
• each image part of the plurality of image parts that fails to upload within an upload timeout threshold is to be re-uploaded to the data storage system after expiration of the upload timeout threshold;
• receive, via the communication interface, an acknowledgment from the data storage system that each image part of the plurality of image parts has been uploaded;
• and
• notify the application that the image has been written to the data storage system.

A method, comprising:

• receiving a request from an application to write an image to a data storage system, wherein the request comprises one or more quality of service parameters indicating a level of service requested by the application for writing the image to the data storage system;
• partitioning the image into a plurality of image parts, wherein each image part of the plurality of image parts comprises a corresponding portion of the image;
• uploading, via a communication interface, the plurality of image parts to the data storage system in parallel, wherein if the one or more quality of service parameters indicate that the level of service requested by the application comprises low latency:
• a plurality of redundant copies of each image part of the plurality of image parts is uploaded to the data storage system in parallel;
• and
• each image part of the plurality of image parts that fails to upload within an upload timeout threshold is re-uploaded to the data storage system after expiration of the upload timeout threshold;
• receiving, via the communication interface, an acknowledgment from the data storage system that each image part of the plurality of image parts has been uploaded;
• and
• notifying the application that the image has been written to the data storage system.