The document discusses different approaches for distributed metadata management in scale-out storage systems. It describes the limitations of centralized and decentralized metadata approaches, which can result in overhead and single points of failure. It then introduces the Elastic Hash Algorithm used by GlusterFS, which hashes file paths to assign data across multiple volumes and physical devices
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