Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control – Control technique
Reexamination Certificate
2006-05-09
2009-06-09
Lane, Jack A (Department: 2185)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory
Storage accessing and control
Control technique
C711S162000, C707S793000, C709S213000, C709S216000, C709S226000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07546432
ABSTRACT:
A hierarchical storage system includes file servers and a policy engine server. Offline attributes are added to file system inodes in a primary file server, file system parameters are added in the primary server, offline read and write access method fields are added to a connection database, and the primary file server uses these attributes and parameters for selecting a particular read method or write method for access to an offline file or section of an offline file. The write methods follow a “write recall full” policy, a “pass-through write” policy, a “pass-through multi-version” policy, or a “directory write pass-through” policy. The pass-through multi-version policy results in a new offline version of a file each time that a client opens and writes to a multi-version file. The directory write pass-through policy results in a new offline file when a file is created within a write pass-through directory.
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Stacey Christopher H.
Zimran Eyal
Auchterlonie Richard C.
EMC Corporation
Lane Jack A
Novak Druce & Quigg LLP
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