IBM goes open source for storage tank
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on December 21, 2002 at 2:29:45 PM
IBM's new storage tank technology will utilize open source versions of the software. Even the idea is pretty good. Take a bunch of computers and link them, and you have a massive storage farm.
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The technology works by using a different way of keeping track of descriptive information--"metadata" such as physical locations, file sizes or access permissions--that accompanies the actual content within the files. Where most storage systems include this metadata in the storage system itself, Storage Tank spreads the information across a group of metadata servers, lower-end dual-processor Intel servers running Linux.