发明授权
- 专利标题: Metadata management method for NAS global namespace design
- 专利标题(中): NAS全局命名空间设计的元数据管理方法
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申请号: US12726337申请日: 2010-03-17
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公开(公告)号: US08458299B2公开(公告)日: 2013-06-04
- 发明人: Wujuan Lin , Shoji Kodama , Naoki Utsunomiya , Hitoshi Kamei
- 申请人: Wujuan Lin , Shoji Kodama , Naoki Utsunomiya , Hitoshi Kamei
- 申请人地址: JP Tokyo
- 专利权人: Hitachi, Ltd.
- 当前专利权人: Hitachi, Ltd.
- 当前专利权人地址: JP Tokyo
- 代理机构: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.
- 主分类号: G06F15/173
- IPC分类号: G06F15/173
摘要:
A global namespace (GNS) is constructed across heterogeneous network-attached storage (NAS) devices by organizing metadata servers into a cluster layer having cluster nodes and a consistent hashing overlay layer having overlay nodes. The global namespace is distributed based on workload at the cluster and overlay nodes, and a portion of the GNS namespace may be migrated from one layer to the other. Cluster nodes may be added to the cluster layer, overlay nodes may be added to the consistent hashing overlay layer. Further, a cluster node may become an overlay node or an overlay node may become a cluster node. To access the global namespace, a request for namespace metadata managed by a cluster node is serviced by the cluster node, but if the requested namespace metadata have been migrated to the consistent hashing overlay layer, the cluster node will forward the request to the responsible overlay node for servicing.