The reliability and high performance of metadata service is crucial to the store architecture. A novel design of a two-level metadata server file system （TTMFS） is presented, which behaves high reliability and perfo...The reliability and high performance of metadata service is crucial to the store architecture. A novel design of a two-level metadata server file system （TTMFS） is presented, which behaves high reliability and performance. The merits both centralized management and distributed management are considered simultaneously in our design. In this file system, the advanced-metadata server is responsible for manage directory metadata and the whole namespace. The double-metadata server is responsible for maintaining file metadata. And this paper uses the Markov return model to analyze the reliability of the two-level metadata server. The experiment data indicates that the design can provide high throughput.展开更多
In an object-based storage system,a novel scheme named EAP(extending attributes page) is presented to enhance the metadata reliability of the system by adding the user object file information attributes page for each ...In an object-based storage system,a novel scheme named EAP(extending attributes page) is presented to enhance the metadata reliability of the system by adding the user object file information attributes page for each user object and storing the file-related attributes of each user object in object-based storage devices.The EAP scheme requires no additional hardware equipments compared to a general method which uses backup metadata servers to improve the metadata reliability.Leveraging a Markov chain,this paper compares the metadata reliability of the system using the EAP scheme with that using only metadata servers to offer the file metadata service.Our results demonstrate that the EAP scheme can dramatically enhance the reliability of storage system metadata.展开更多
基金Supported by the Industrialized Foundation ofHebei Province (F020501)
文摘The reliability and high performance of metadata service is crucial to the store architecture. A novel design of a two-level metadata server file system （TTMFS） is presented, which behaves high reliability and performance. The merits both centralized management and distributed management are considered simultaneously in our design. In this file system, the advanced-metadata server is responsible for manage directory metadata and the whole namespace. The double-metadata server is responsible for maintaining file metadata. And this paper uses the Markov return model to analyze the reliability of the two-level metadata server. The experiment data indicates that the design can provide high throughput.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.60873028)the National Basic Research Program (973) of China (No.2004CB318201)+1 种基金the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (No.NCET-04-0693)the Innovational Group Project (No.IRT0725),China
文摘In an object-based storage system,a novel scheme named EAP(extending attributes page) is presented to enhance the metadata reliability of the system by adding the user object file information attributes page for each user object and storing the file-related attributes of each user object in object-based storage devices.The EAP scheme requires no additional hardware equipments compared to a general method which uses backup metadata servers to improve the metadata reliability.Leveraging a Markov chain,this paper compares the metadata reliability of the system using the EAP scheme with that using only metadata servers to offer the file metadata service.Our results demonstrate that the EAP scheme can dramatically enhance the reliability of storage system metadata.
