INDEPENDENT SYNCHRONIZATION OF META-DATA BETWEEN DEVICES

摘要

A method comprises maintaining a data store of meta-data for a plurality of other data stores. The meta-data data store includes a plurality of meta-data data elements. Each of the meta-data data elements corresponds to a respective one of a plurality of data stores on a first network element. Meta-data of the meta-data data store of the first network element is sent to a second network element. To synchronize the meta-data of one of the plurality of data stores, the meta-data data element of the meta-data data store that corresponds to that one of the plurality of data stores is synchronized between the first network element and the second network element. The synchronizing of the meta-data data element is independent of synchronizing of at least one of the plurality of data stores.