Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Locating previous versions of an object in a storage cluster
- Patent Title (中): 查找存储集群中对象的先前版本
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Application No.: US13791382Application Date: 2013-03-08
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Publication No.: US09354976B2Publication Date: 2016-05-31
- Inventor: Shekhar A. Amlekar , Ankit Mathur
- Applicant: NetApp, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Main IPC: G06F17/30
- IPC: G06F17/30 ; G06F11/14 ; G06F11/00

Abstract:
Technology for accessing previous versions of data objects within a storage cluster including multiple storage volumes under a common namespace is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the network storage cluster having multiple cooperative storage nodes receives a namespace identifier for a previous version of a data object. The namespace identifier includes a namespace path containing a volume junction and a time indicator indicating a point in time when the previous version of the data object existed. The network storage cluster identifies a storage volume within the network storage cluster using the volume junction. The volume junction points to a root directory of a file system of the storage volume. The network storage cluster locates, based on the namespace path, the previous version of the data object within a snapshot copy of the storage volume, wherein the snapshot copy is identified by the time indicator.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140258239A1 LOCATING PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF AN OBJECT IN A STORAGE CLUSTER Public/Granted day:2014-09-11
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