Invention Application
- Patent Title: OBJECT STORAGE BACKED FILE SYSTEM
-
Application No.: US14866793Application Date: 2015-09-25
-
Publication No.: US20170091296A1Publication Date: 2017-03-30
- Inventor: Derek William Beard , Guy Sirton , Garret Lance Hayes , Jason Dillard Preston
- Applicant: NetApp, Inc.
- Main IPC: G06F17/30
- IPC: G06F17/30

Abstract:
To leverage the attributes of object storage for applications/systems created to interface with a network files system, an object storage backed file system can accept the defined file system commands from the applications/systems and transform the file system commands into requests that target object storage. The file system is “backed” by object storage because attributes and content of file system entities are stored in objects. For instance, content data and metadata of a file are stored in objects in object storage. This object storage backed file system can be considered a bridge between a client perceived hierarchical file system namespace and a flat namespace of an object storage.
Public/Granted literature
- US10929419B2 Object storage backed file system Public/Granted day:2021-02-23
Information query