公开(公告)号：US20170300508A1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-19

申请号：US15640719

申请日：2017-07-03

Applicant: NetApp, Inc.

Inventor： Richard P. JERNIGAN, IV ,  Robert Wyckoff HYER, JR. ,  Daniel TENNANT

IPC: G06F17/30

CPC classification number: G06F17/30115 ,  G06F17/30094 ,  G06F17/30194 ,  G06F17/3053 ,  G06F17/30864 ,  G06F17/30952

Abstract: A system and method for adaptive data placement in a distributed file system is provided. Upon creation of a new subdirectory, a first heuristic procedure is formed to determine whether the newly created subdirectory should be created locally or on a remote flexible volume. Should it be determination be made to create or store the subdirectory on a remote flexible volume, a second heuristic procedure determines which of a plurality of flexible volumes should store the newly created subdirectory.