Symmetric active/active metadata service for highly available cluster storage systems

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 404-409

  Ou, Li ^a   Engelmann, Christian ^b   He, Xubin ^a   Chen, Xin ^a   Scott, Stephen ^b  

^a Tennessee Technological University   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast delivery protocol; High availability; Metadata management

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER STORAGE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEMS; FAST DELIVERY PROTOCOL; HIGH AVAILABILITY; IDLE BACKUPS; METADATA MANAGEMENT; METADATA SERVERS; METADATA SERVICES; PERFORMANCE TRADE-OFFS; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; REDUNDANT SERVICES; REPLICATION MODELS; REPLICATION TECHNIQUES; RUNNING-IN; SERVICE NODES; TOTAL ORDER BROADCASTS; VIRTUAL SYNCHRONIES;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SERVERS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

METADATA;

EID: 50649096937     PISSN: 10272658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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