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File system operation on multi-tiered volume

  • US 9,116,904 B2
  • Filed: 03/14/2013
  • Issued: 08/25/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable hardware storage device having thereon one or more computer-executable instructions that are executable by one or more processors of a computing system to cause the computing system to perform acts comprising:

  • an act of acquiring logical storage locations and trait sets for each of a plurality of tiers of a volume;

    an act of identifying a file system namespace that is either in the volume or that is to be placed in the volume;

    an act of determining a storage trait set corresponding to the file system namespace;

    an act of identifying a trait set of a particular tier of the volume;

    an act of identifying the particular tier of the volume into which to store the file system namespace, wherein said identifying includes;

    determining that the storage trait set fails to match any set of traits corresponding to the plurality of tiers of the volume, including the trait set of the particular tier; and

    selecting the particular tier as a best matched tier; and

    an act of causing the file system namespace to be stored within the particular tier of the volume.

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