GUFI Demo/BoF Session at MSST'23 (May 22, 2023) hosted at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

[dmanno]

Hello!

We will be hosting a GUFI demo and BoF session at the International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology 2023 (MSST) being held in Santa Clara, CA. Tutorial/BoF sessions will be held on May 22, 2023 and the conference continues through May 24, 2023. This will provide an overview and demonstrate some of the inner workings and optimizations GUFI provides to further improve your metadata query performance. An abstract summarizing the session is below. Registration links for MSST are at https://storageconference.us/

We look forward to seeing you all and having a great discussion.

Large Scale File/Storage System Indexing with the Grand Unified File Index
Jason Lee, Dominic Manno, Gary Grider, LANL
As filesystems become larger and larger, management of the data stored in these filesystems becomes more and more complex and time consuming. Querying filesystem metadata with standard tools can take hours or even days due to the sheer amount of metadata to be processed and how standard tools go about processing the metadata. Some filesystems provide custom tools that assist in querying their metadata, but there is no unified set of tools to do so. Additionally, such tools are usually reserved for administrators, not users. The Grand Unified File Index (GUFI) solves all these issues and more. GUFI provides a set of highly performant, parallel tools that allow for complex queries to be applied to the metadata of arbitrary filesystems. The GUFI toolset can be used by both administrators as well as users without violating permission semantics. Indices from disconnected filesystems can be combined, allowing for queries across multiple filesystems at once. This session will provide a high-level overview of GUFI as well as a tutorial on using GUFI.