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 ## Architecture
 
+Filer has a persistent client connecting to Master, to know the locations of all volumes.
+
 For file reads:
 1. Filer lookup metadata from Filer Store, which can be Cassandra/Mysql/Postgres/Redis/LevelDB.
-2. Filer lookup the volume id locations if not in the cache.
-3. Filer read from volume servers and pass along to the read request.
+2. Filer read from volume servers and pass along to the read request.
 ![](FilerRead.png)
 
 For file writes: