Method for facilitating access to remote files
First Claim
1. A method for facilitating access by a first digital computer to a file that is stored in a local file system tree of a second digital computer, both the first and the second digital computers being included in a network of digital computers;
- the first digital computer being adapted for retrieving from the second digital computer and for storing a cached image of the file, the method comprising the steps of;
a) initially establishing a single, hierarchical domain tree that encompasses digital computers in the network of digital computers including the second digital computer by;
i) digital computers in the network of digital computers exporting at least a root of a domain tree that is used in exporting files from digital computers; and
ii) digital computers in the network of digital computers that have been previously designated as domain managers for a group of digital computers in the network of digital computers;
1) receiving exported roots for domain trees; and
2) grafting onto a domain root of the domain manager the exported roots received from digital computers that belong to the group assigned to the domain manager; and
b;
the first digital computer retrieving from the domain manager the domain root for the hierarchical domain tree.
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Abstract
A method for facilitating access to a file in a networked multiprocessor computer system including establishing a hierarchical distributed data service (DDS) domain tree (200) that encompasses all computers in the network, grafting onto the tree the file system trees (198) that are exported from one or more Network Distributed Caches (NDC) (50). An arbitrarily chosen name assigned to each DDS domain (206) respectively identifies roots (208) of the hierarchical DDS domain tree (200) and of each of the DDS sub-domain trees (202).
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1. A method for facilitating access by a first digital computer to a file that is stored in a local file system tree of a second digital computer, both the first and the second digital computers being included in a network of digital computers;
- the first digital computer being adapted for retrieving from the second digital computer and for storing a cached image of the file, the method comprising the steps of;
a) initially establishing a single, hierarchical domain tree that encompasses digital computers in the network of digital computers including the second digital computer by;
i) digital computers in the network of digital computers exporting at least a root of a domain tree that is used in exporting files from digital computers; and
ii) digital computers in the network of digital computers that have been previously designated as domain managers for a group of digital computers in the network of digital computers;
1) receiving exported roots for domain trees; and
2) grafting onto a domain root of the domain manager the exported roots received from digital computers that belong to the group assigned to the domain manager; and
b;
the first digital computer retrieving from the domain manager the domain root for the hierarchical domain tree. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
- the first digital computer being adapted for retrieving from the second digital computer and for storing a cached image of the file, the method comprising the steps of;
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