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Design and implementation of two-level metadata server in small-scale cluster file system

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Wuhan University Journal of Natural Sciences

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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 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.

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  1. Institute of Network Technology, Heibei University, 071002, Baoding, Hebei, China

    Liu Yuling, Yu Hongfen & Song Weiwei

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  1. Liu Yuling
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Correspondence to Liu Yuling.

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Foundation item: Supported by the Industrialized Foundation of Hebei Province (F020501)

Biography: LIU Yuling (1964-), female, Associate professor, research direction: information security and analysis.

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Yuling, L., Hongfen, Y. & Weiwei, S. Design and implementation of two-level metadata server in small-scale cluster file system. Wuhan Univ. J. Nat. Sci. 11, 1939–1942 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02831912

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