A DESIGN OF METADATA SERVER CLUSTER IN LARGE DISTRIBUTED OBJECTBASED STORAGE

InlargedistributedObject-basedStorageSystems,theperformance,availabilityandscalabilityoftheMetadataServer(MDS)clusterarecritical.TraditionalMDSclustersuffersfromfrequentmetadataaccessandmetadatamovementwithinthecluster.Inthispaper,wepresentanewmethodcalledHashingPartition(HAP)forMDSclus