In addition to the paper that Rob Ross pointed you to, the OrangeFS team
has implemented the GIGA+ strategy but is not in our current 2.8.5 release.

Becky Ligon

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:32 AM, André Oriani <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I went to PVFS2 page  and there says that PVFS2 has distributed metadata,
> but it does not give details on how it is implemented. I searched the web
> and the  only  source I found was from an undergraduate student' paper.  It
> said  that handle numbers were statically allocated to pvfs2-servers, so a
> client would hash the complete filename to find out which pfvs2-server it
> should contact to read and store metadata. Is this correct?
>
> For OrangeFS I heard that it will be using the GIGA+ strategy.
>
>
> Thanks,
> André Oriani
>
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Becky Ligon
OrangeFS Support and Development
Omnibond Systems
Anderson, South Carolina
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