The Metadata Problem - Understanding the Issues and How to Address Them | SNIA

Abstract

Understanding how metadata affects your storage architecture is critical for developing storage that performs well and scales. This presentation will outline major storage metadata models, how different file systems have addressed the problem and techniques and best practices for solving metadata problems for different use cases. The speaker will discuss the pros and cons of centralized, distributed and no-metadata architectures. The presentation will cover object storage, file storage, parallel/clustered file systems, and others as well as an explanation of popular metadata algorithms.

Learning Objectives

Understand the different metadata management models
Why metadata management is critical to performance and scale
Techniques for metadata management
Pros/cons of different metadata management models