Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
2006-01-10
2006-01-10
Ali, Mohammad (Department: 2167)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06985914
ABSTRACT:
File system cells are linked together to form a meta file system that appears to a user or application program to be a single file system. The meta file system permits concurrent access by multiple processors in a file server wherein each file system cell is managed by a respective one of the processors. The file server responds to a directory access request by returning a file handle containing a file system cell ID and a pointer to a file in the file system cell. The file server responds to a subsequent file access request including the file handle by extracting the file system cell ID and the pointer to the file, searching a routing table for an entry having a file system cell ID matching the file system cell ID extracted from the file handle, and routing the request to the processor managing the file system cell.
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Gupta Uday K.
Venkatesh Dinesh
Ali Mohammad
Auchterlonie Richard
EMC Corporation
Novak Druce & Quigg LLP
Pannala Sathyanarayan
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