Lunule: an agile and judicious metadata load balancer for CephFS

Published in SC2021, 2021

Yiduo Wang, Cheng Li, Xinyang Shao, Youxu Chen, Feng Yan, and Yinlong Xu.
"Lunule: an agile and judicious metadata load balancer for CephFS."
SC 2021. (CCF-A, Conference Paper)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3458817.3476196

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Lunule is a novel CephFS metadata load balancer, which employs an imbalance factor model for accurately determining when to trigger re-balance and tolerate benign imbalanced situations.