FILE STORAGE SYSTEM HAVING SEPARATION OF COMPONENTS

摘要

According to one embodiment, a storage system (100) may include an interface component (106) having a number of gateway servers (114), a metadata service component (108) having a number of metadata servers (116), and a content service component (110) that includes a number of storage servers (118). Scalability may be improved by enabling servers to be added to each different component (106, 108 and 110) separately. Availability may be improved as software and/or hardware can be changed for host machine in a component (106, 108 and 110) while the remaining host machines of the component continue to function.