PATTERN-BASED OBJECT SERVING

• US 20160142484A1
• Filed: 11/17/2014
• Published: 05/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Shetty, Deepak Chandrashekhar
• Granted Patent: US 10,348,826 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44536 Selecting among different versions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

Systems and methods for pattern-based object serving. An example method may comprise: receiving, by a processing device, an object access pattern and an identifier of an object container to be associated with object access requests by a client; receiving an object access request from the client; selecting an object in view of the object container and the object access pattern; and providing an identifier of the object to the client.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a processing device, an object access pattern and an identifier of an object container to be associated with object access requests by a client;

receiving an object access request from the client;

selecting an object in view of the object container and the object access pattern; and

providing an identifier of the object to the client.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the object is provided by one of:

a file or an object-based storage system object.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the object container is provided by one of:

a root directory of a file system or a container of an object-based storage system.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the object is performed by one of:

a file system server, a file system driver, an object-based storage system server, or an object-based storage system driver.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifier of the object comprises at least one of:

a descriptor associated with the object or an object name associated with the object.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the object access pattern comprises at least one of:

a regular expression or a wildcard character.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting the object is performed by an I/O request translator.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the object access pattern comprises reading a configuration file.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the object access pattern comprises parsing parameters of a system call.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the identifier of the object container comprises reading a configuration file.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the identifier of the object container comprises parsing parameters of a system call.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving an object access request comprises processing a system call.

13. A system, comprising:

a memory; and

a processing device, communicatively coupled to the memory, the processing device to;

receive, by the processing device, an object access pattern and an identifier of an object container to be associated with object access requests by a client;

receiving an object access request from the client;

selecting an object in view of the object container and the object access pattern; and

providing an identifier of the object to the client.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the object is provided by one of:

a file or an object-based storage system object.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the object container is provided by one of:

a root directory of a file system or a container of an object-based storage system.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein receiving the object access pattern comprises at least one of:

reading a configuration file or parsing parameters of a system call.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein receiving the identifier of the object container comprises at least one of:

reading a configuration file or parsing parameters of a system call.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing device of a file system server, cause the processing device to perform operations, comprising:

receiving, by the processing device, an object access pattern and an identifier of an object container to be associated with object access requests by a client;

receiving an object access request from the client;

selecting an object in view of the object container and the object access pattern; and

providing an identifier of the object to the client.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the object is provided by one of:

a file or an object-based storage system object.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the object container is provided by one of:

a root directory of a file system or a container of an object-based storage system.