Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Object store file system format for representing, storing, and retrieving data in an object store according to a structured format
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Application No.: US16296417Application Date: 2019-03-08
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Publication No.: US11144502B2Publication Date: 2021-10-12
- Inventor: Tijin George , Jagavar Nehra , Roopesh Chuggani , Dnyaneshwar Nagorao Pawar , Atul Ramesh Pandit , Anil Kumar Ponnapur , Jose Mathew , Sriram Venketaraman
- Applicant: NetApp Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: NetApp Inc.
- Current Assignee: NetApp Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Cooper Legal Group, LLC
- Main IPC: G06F16/14
- IPC: G06F16/14 ; G06F16/11 ; G06F16/182 ; G06F11/14

Abstract:
Techniques are provided for an object file system for an object store. Data, maintained by a computing device, is stored into slots of an object. The data within the slots of the object is represented as a data structure comprising a plurality of nodes comprising cloud block numbers used to identify the object and particular slots of the object. A mapping metafile is maintained to map block numbers used to store the data by the computing device to cloud block numbers of nodes representing portion of the data stored within slots of the object. The object is stored into the object store, and the mapping metafile and the data structure are used to provide access through the object file system to portions of data within the object.
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