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Systems and methods for load balancing drives and servers by pushing a copy of a frequently accessed file to another disk drive

  • US 8,943,513 B2
  • Filed: 09/13/2012
  • Issued: 01/27/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A file system to balance loading of servers and capacity of drives associated with the servers, the file system comprising:

  • a plurality of disk drives;

    a plurality of servers, each server associated with at least one of the plurality of disk drives and each server configured to;

    fill requests through access to an associated disk drive; and

    fill requests through access to a disk drive associated with another server, and the servers associated with a load indicative of a number of requests via associated server for files included on one or more disk drives in data communication with the associated server;

    push a copy of a file on the associated disk drive to the disk drive associated with the other server, said file associated with a number of requests via the server is greater than a number of requests via the server for another file; and

    return a file handle identifying the disk drive associated with the other server and designating the other server in response to a request for the file.

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