Metadata processing method, agenting and forwarding equipment, server and computing system

The invention discloses a metadata processing method, agenting and forwarding equipment, a server and a computing system. The metadata processing method disclosed by the invention comprises the following steps of: acquiring metadata information of multiple files from the metadata server; receiving a metadata request transmitted from the IO (input/output) forwarding equipment, wherein the metadata request carries file path information to be subjected to operation performing; searching a data object identifier in the metadata information of a corresponding file according to the file path information to be subjected to operation performing; and when the data object identifier is found, returning the data object identifier to the IO forwarding equipment, searching a data object in a data storage device by using the IO forwarding equipment according to the data object identifier, and performing the file data operation on a data object by computing node equipment. According to the metadata processing method, the agenting and forwarding equipment, the server and the computing system, the metadata processing is implemented by the metadata agenting equipment, the load of the metadata server is alleviated, the complexity of the metadata clustering is reduced, and the flexibility of the metadata processing improved.