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CEFT-PVFS is a RAID-10 style parallel file system that mirrors the
striped data between two groups of server nodes, one primary
group and one backup group, as shown in
Figure 1. There is one metadata server in each
group. To make the synchronization simple, clients' requests go to
the primary metadata server first. If the primary metadata server
fails, all metadata requests will be redirected to the backup one.
All following requests will directly go to the backup metadata
server until the primary one is recovered and rejoins the system.
For write requests, the data will first be written to the primary
group and then be duplicated to the backup group. Four duplication
(or mirroring) protocols are designed and will be discussed in
Section IV.
Figure 1:
Basic diagram of CEFT-PVFS.
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Yifeng Zhu
2003-10-16