Spyglass: Metadata Search for Large-scaleStorage Systems.
Andrew W. Leung, Minglong Shao, Timothy Bisson, Shankar Pasupathy, Ethan L. Miller · 2009
[email protected] A r e o u r g r o w I n g s T o r A g e s y s T e m s a blessing or a curse? As storage systems expand to billions of files they become increasingly difficult to manage. Effective management requires quickly searching the metadata of the files being stored. Unfortunately, tools such as find and grep and off-the-shelf databases cannot easily scale to billions of files. Spyglass is a new approach to metadata search, which leverages file and query properties to improve performance and functionality and to allow people to focus on using rather than merely managing their data.