Title :
Organize metadata servers by using quorum system
Author :
Liu, Tzong-Jye ; Wang, Wei-Chan ; Tseng, Chuan-Mu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Feng Chia Univ., Taichung, Taiwan
Abstract :
It is very important to distribute requests of finding files and to avoid the crash of a single metadata server, so we use a few metadata servers to build a distributed file system. However, this method may cause the inconsistency among metadata and the difficulty of searching metadata. Therefore, we use the quorum system to organize the metadata servers into a distributed file system, and the loading of the file system will be shared on metadata servers as average as possible. Besides, the quorum system not only makes sure of the consistency among metadata but also makes metadata searched easily.
Keywords :
file organisation; file servers; information retrieval; meta data; network operating systems; peer-to-peer computing; distributed file system; file organisation; file sharing; metadata searching; metadata servers; quorum system; Distributed databases; File servers; File systems; Loading; Peer to peer computing; Search problems; Servers;
Conference_Titel :
System Integration (SII), 2011 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1523-5
DOI :
10.1109/SII.2011.6147607
