Query: How do you overcome the limitations of traditional distributed storage?
Context: Traditional distributed storage saves metadata in I/O blocks on the underlying media and locks the I/O block from changes anytime a compute node performs an operation that creates, updates, or deletes metadata. In a DAOS configuration, metadata is stored byte by byte on Intel Optane persistent memory modules. DAOS storage clusters do not need to lock I/O blocks down, which results in a dramatic reduction in storage I/O latency.