Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2005, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (3): 297-299.

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The Distributed Metadata Management of Parallel File Systems with High Availability

LI Sheng-li, TANG Wei, SHI Ke, CHENG Bin, MENG Ting-you   

  1. Department of Computer Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • Received:2004-02-27 Revised:2004-04-19 Online:2005-05-31 Published:2005-05-31

Abstract: Metadata management is one of the key techniques for building a parallel file system.This paper presents a metadata management mechanism for a parallel file system named HANDY, which attains high availability of metadata and dynamic scalability of metadata servers.

Key words: dynamic scalability, metadata, parallel file system, high availability

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