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Computer method and apparatus for handling private process state in a stacking file system

  • US 20070100855A1
  • Filed: 10/20/2005
  • Published: 05/03/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a computer system having a subject filesystem and corresponding stacking filesystem, a method for handling directory names comprising:

  • obtaining directory trees of the subject filesystem, each directory tree having a root directory entry and plural directory entries linked together in a hierarchical manner, each directory entry having a respective directory name;

    for each directory entry, representing the directory entry with a respective filesystem object, filesystem objects in the stacking filesystem having respective virtual directory names; and

    using the directory trees of the subject filesystem to process operations such that operations are processed using directory names in a name space of the subject filesystem free of interference from the virtual directory names of the stacking filesystem.

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