Unified file and object data storage

• US 10,515,058 B2
• Filed: 05/07/2018
• Issued: 12/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Avati, Anand Vishweswaran, Ahmed, Mohammed Junaid
• Primary Examiner(s): Brooks, David T.
• Application Number:
  US15/973,508
• Publication Number:
  US 20180260412A1
• Time in Patent Office: 596 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/182 Distributed file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/196 Specific adaptations of the file system to access devices and non-file objects via standard file system access operations, e.g. pseudo file systems dedicated interfaces to storage systems G06F3/0601
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A request to perform an operation on an object in a first storage system may be received from a client computing device via a local area network or a wide area network. Mapping data that associates an account identifier from the request to perform the operation on the object in the first storage system to a volume of a file system of a second storage system may be received. The second storage system may be mounted to perform the operation using the file in the second storage system that corresponds to the object in the first storage system. The second storage system may be mounted by using the account identifier from the mapping data.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, from a client computing device and by a processing device via a local area network or a wide area network, a request to perform an operation on an object in a first storage system;

receiving mapping data that associates an account identifier from the request to perform the operation on the object in the first storage system to a volume of a file system of a second storage system;

determining that a file in the second storage system corresponds to the object in the first storage system; and

mounting, by the processing device, the second storage system to perform the operation using the file in the second storage system that corresponds to the object in the first storage system, wherein the second storage system is mounted by using the account identifier from the mapping data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the object is associated with a container that corresponds to an account associated with the account identifier, wherein the account is associated with a particular entity.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first storage system corresponds to an object server, the method further comprising:

allowing access to a same data as the object of the first storage system and as the file in the second storage system in view of the object server.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first storage system comprises a proxy server, an account server, and a container server that are coupled with the local area network or the wide area network.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating the mapping data that identifies the file, a directory, and the volume in the file system that corresponds to an object identifier of the object, a container identifier, and the account identifier.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the operation is a read operation of data, write operation of data, or a delete operation of data, the method further comprising:

providing a status message that indicates a status of the operation, wherein the status message includes a text description for the status of the operation.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

encoding identity and permission information into the account identifier, the identity and permission information being associated with access control of data of the object.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to:

receive, from a client computing device and by the processing device via a local area network or a wide area network, a request to perform an operation on an object in a first storage system;

receive mapping data that associates an account identifier from the request to perform the operation on the object in the first storage system to a volume of a file system of a second storage system;

determine that a file in the second storage system corresponds to the object in the first storage system; and

mount, by the processing device, the second storage system to perform the operation using the file in the second storage system that corresponds to the object in the first storage system, wherein the second storage system is mounted by using the account identifier from the mapping data.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the object is associated with a container that corresponds to an account associated with the account identifier, wherein the account is associated with a particular entity.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the first storage system corresponds to an object server, and wherein the processing device is further to:

allow access to a same data as the object of the first storage system and as the file in the second storage system in view of the object server.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the first storage system comprises a proxy server, an account server, and a container server that are coupled with the local area network or the wide area network.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the processing device is further to:

generate the mapping data that identifies the file, a directory, and the volume in the file system that corresponds to an object identifier of the object, a container identifier, and the account identifier.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the operation is a read operation of data, write operation of data, or a delete operation of data, and wherein the processing device is further to:

provide a status message that indicates a status of the operation, wherein the status message includes a text description for the status of the operation.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the processing device is further to:

encode identity and permission information into the account identifier, the identity and permission information being associated with access control of data of the object.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the object is associated with a container that corresponds to an account associated with the account identifier, and wherein the account is associated with a particular entity.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the first storage system corresponds to an object server, and wherein the processing device is further to:

allow access to a same data as the object of the first storage system and as the file in the second storage system in view of the object server.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein the first storage system comprises a proxy server, an account server, and a container server that are coupled with the local area network or the wide area network.

19. The system of claim 14, wherein the processing device is further to:

generate the mapping data that identifies the file, a directory, and the volume in the file system that corresponds to an object identifier of the object, a container identifier, and the account identifier.

20. The system of claim 14, wherein the processing device is further to:

encode identity and permission information into the account identifier, the identity and permission information being associated with access control of data of the object.

15. A system comprising:

a memory; and

a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory, to;

receive, from a client computing device via a local area network or a wide area network, a request to perform an operation on an object in a first storage system;

receive mapping data that associates an account identifier from the request to perform the operation on the object in the first storage system to a volume of a file system of a second storage system;

determine that a file in the second storage system corresponds to the object in the first storage system; and

mount the second storage system to perform the operation using the file in the second storage system that corresponds to the object in the first storage system, wherein the second storage system is mounted by using the account identifier from the mapping data.