International Business Machines Corporation

Scott Brewer

Gregory Tad Kishi

Joseph W Dain

Theodore Timothy Harris, Jr

Raul Eduardo Saba

Sara Megan Coronado

Drew Olson

A method and/or system of managing metadata are disclosed that include connecting a source data storage system (DSS) that stores both data and metadata to a metadata management platform (MMP); scanning metadata records onto the MMP from the DSS; storing metadata attributes for at least one of the group consisting of directories and buckets on the DSS in a look-up table on the MMP; and adding updated metadata attributes to the look-up table on the MMP for each subsequent scan of the DSS.

Custom metadata tag inheritance based on a filesystem directory tree or object storage bucket

A method includes scanning, by a device of a plurality of devices, a directory of a file system. The directory includes a plurality of subdirectories, and each device of the plurality of devices corresponds to a different queue of a plurality of queues. The method also includes inserting, by the device, a plurality of scanning tasks into a subset of the plurality of queues in a round robin fashion. The plurality of scanning tasks correspond to the plurality of subdirectories and responding to a scanning task of the plurality of scanning tasks includes scanning a subdirectory of the plurality of subdirectories.

Parallel file system scans with multiple shared queues

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