System and method for caching network file systems

Details System and method for caching network file systems System and method for caching network file systems

2006-04-24

2011-11-08

Nguyen, Thu Ha T (Department: 2453)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Distributed data processing

Client/server

C709S225000, C711S118000, C711S161000, C711S162000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08055702

ABSTRACT:
A network caching system has a multi-protocol caching filer coupled to an origin server to provide storage virtualization of data served by the filer in response to data access requests issued by multi-protocol clients over a computer network. The multi-protocol caching filer includes a file system configured to manage a sparse volume that “virtualizes” a storage space of the data to thereby provide a cache function that enables access to data by the multi-protocol clients. To that end, the caching filer further includes a multi-protocol engine configured to translate the multi-protocol client data access requests into generic file system primitive operations executable by both the caching filer and the origin server.

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