Migrating data between Unifyfs servers
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- C
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Description
### Describe the problem you're observing
In the case of producer-consumer workloads where a subset of producers produce and then another subset of processes on a different set of nodes consume, currently the reading of consumers is bottlenecked by the unifyfs server which holds the data (generally the set of nodes where data was produced).
We can add a migration step between the unifyfs servers to migrate this data closer to the consumers so that they can access data node-locally instead of remote access.
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by tracing how producers place data and how consumers read it across UnifyFS servers, then determine where migration would fit. Done should mean consumer data can be accessed node-locally rather than through the server holding the original data.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- distributed-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100