Elastifile Architecture – Overview, Data Path with Ezra Hoch

Ezra Hoch, Chief Architect, gives an overview of the Elastifile file system data path. They have built a dynamic data path as part of their solution that can choose where specifically to write data, with the ability to cancel and re-choose write location in the event of errors or performance issues. Notably, this is done without any overall data caching, which with NVMe doesn’t provide any performance advantage. Instead, they leverage metadata caching.