公开(公告)号：US20170123935A1

公开(公告)日：2017-05-04

申请号：US14929091

申请日：2015-10-30

Applicant: NetApp, Inc.

Inventor： Atul Ramesh Pandit ,  Michael R. Eisler ,  Sisir Shekhar ,  Vijay Mohan Deshmukh

IPC: G06F11/14 ,  G06F17/30

Abstract: An enterprise may use file level and block level storage for operational access to reap the performance benefits, and use object storage for back-up storage and scale out. Data of objects and objects themselves can be organized to allow for efficient storage management operations, including storage snapshot operations and deduplication operations. A root file container can be represented in object storage with a metadata object (“file container object”) and child file container can be represented in object storage with a metadata object (“file group object”). Each file can be represented in object storage with a metadata object that indicates the data units of the file depending upon the storage technology hosting the file (e.g., a file data block in file level storage). The data units of the file can be represented in object storage as elements of a data object.