METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING FILE SYSTEMS AND FILE-BASED DATA STORAGE

• US 20120136843A1
• Filed: 11/21/2011
• Published: 05/31/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: Storediq Incorporated (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Bone, Jeff G., Funderburg, Brett A., Jimenez, A. Paul, Arbilla, Laura
• Granted Patent: US 8,898,101 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/694
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/10 File systems; File servers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99932 Access augmentation or optimizing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99953 Recoverability

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.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising a set of computer instructions stored on a computer readable medium and executable by a computer processor to:

receive a filesystem request indicating a requested filesystem operation;

compare the filesystem request to a programmable rulesbase to determine whether the filesystem request matches a pattern; and

if the filesystem request matches a pattern, execute an action associated with the pattern.