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公开(公告)号:US07475199B1
公开(公告)日:2009-01-06
申请号:US09694071
申请日:2000-10-19
申请人: Jared E. Bobbitt , Jiong (Justin) Chen , Stephan A. Doll , John W. Fawcett , Marc T. Friedman , Robert C. Hickman , Edward P. Johnson , Ty Lam , Patrick Wing Sang Lau , Joseph P. Mullally , Robert J. Smith , Jeffrey C. Tanner
发明人: Jared E. Bobbitt , Jiong (Justin) Chen , Stephan A. Doll , John W. Fawcett , Marc T. Friedman , Robert C. Hickman , Edward P. Johnson , Ty Lam , Patrick Wing Sang Lau , Joseph P. Mullally , Robert J. Smith , Jeffrey C. Tanner
IPC分类号: G06F12/00
CPC分类号: G06F17/30233 , G06F3/0607 , G06F3/0647 , G06F3/0665 , G06F3/067 , G06F17/30079 , G06F17/30194 , Y10S707/99953 , Y10S707/99955
摘要: An incrementally-scalable file system and method. The system architecture enables file systems to be scaled by adding resources, such as additional filers and/or file servers, without requiring that the system be taken offline or being known to client applications. The system also provides for load balancing file accesses by distributing files across the various file storage resources in the system, as dictated by the relative capacities of said storage resources. The system provides one or more “virtual” file system volumes in a manner that makes it appear to client applications that all of the file system's storage space resides on the virtual volume(s), while in reality the files may be stored on many more physical volumes on the filers and/or file servers in the system.
摘要翻译: 一种递增可扩展的文件系统和方法。 系统架构可以通过添加资源(如附加的文件管理器和/或文件服务器)来扩展文件系统,而不需要将系统脱机或被客户端应用程序所知。 该系统还通过根据所述存储资源的相对容量来指定跨系统中的各种文件存储资源分发文件来提供负载平衡文件访问。 系统提供一个或多个“虚拟”文件系统卷,以使客户端应用程序看到所有文件系统的存储空间驻留在虚拟卷上,而实际上文件可能存储在更多的文件系统上 系统中文件管理器和/或文件服务器上的物理卷。