Contents

• Introduction
  • What is a metadata
  • What is a file system
  • What is a metadata file system
  • Relations
  • Why would anybody want to use a metadata file system
  • Why would anybody not switch to a metadata file system
  • Current status of metadata file systems
  
  
• Metadata file systems in details
  • Different tagging strategies
  
  
• Introduction to file systems in the Linux kernel
  • From the kernels point of view
  • File systems in the Linux kernel
  • FUSE
  • Problems
  
  
• A simple design proposal
• Implementation
• Conclusion
• Bibliography

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