Method and apparatus for managing file systems and...

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2003-07-30

2009-10-27

Wong, Leslie (Department: 2168)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Distributed data processing

C707S793000, C707S793000, C707S793000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07610329

ABSTRACT:
Embodiments of the present invention can comprise systems and methods for managing filesystems and can provide a programmable filesystem with active rules and policies, an n-tier network filesystem, stack mounting, a union filesystem with write-through semantics, a filesystem middleware with selective delegation, a filesystem with a statistical warehouse and/or other management functionality.

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