Glossario IA
Il dizionario completo dell'Intelligenza Artificiale
Ceph
Open source distributed storage platform providing object, block, and file interfaces with exabyte scalability and strong consistency via CRUSH algorithms.
GlusterFS
Horizontal scale-out distributed file system that aggregates multiple storage servers into a single global parallel namespace.
Metadata Server
Specialized component in distributed file systems that exclusively manages metadata (hierarchical structure, permissions, locations) separately from the data itself.
Chunk Server
Storage server in the Google File System architecture responsible for storing fixed-size chunks (data fragments, typically 64MB) with unique identifiers.
Secondary NameNode
Auxiliary component in HDFS that periodically merges change logs with the filesystem image to reduce the primary NameNode's restart time.
Lustre
High-performance parallel file system used in supercomputers, separating metadata (MDS) from object servers (OSS) for massive scalability.