WO2004061605A3 - Medata based file switch and switched file system - Google Patents

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WO2004061605A3
WO2004061605A3 PCT/US2003/041202 US0341202W WO2004061605A3 WO 2004061605 A3 WO2004061605 A3 WO 2004061605A3 US 0341202 W US0341202 W US 0341202W WO 2004061605 A3 WO2004061605 A3 WO 2004061605A3
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Vladimir Miloushev
Peter Nickolov
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Attune Systems Inc
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Priority claimed from US10/336,833 external-priority patent/US20040133606A1/en
Priority claimed from US10/336,784 external-priority patent/US7788335B2/en
Priority claimed from US10/336,835 external-priority patent/US7383288B2/en
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Priority to AU2003300350A priority patent/AU2003300350A1/en
Priority to EP03814952A priority patent/EP1584011A4/en
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L67/00—Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications
    • H04L67/01—Protocols
    • H04L67/10—Protocols in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network
    • H04L67/1097—Protocols in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L67/00—Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications
    • H04L67/01—Protocols
    • H04L67/10—Protocols in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network
    • H04L67/1001—Protocols in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L67/00—Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications
    • H04L67/50—Network services
    • H04L67/56—Provisioning of proxy services
    • H04L67/566—Grouping or aggregating service requests, e.g. for unified processing

Abstract

Client computers (1, 2, 3, 4) are decoupled from file servers (105, 106, 107, 108) in a computer network (211), by placing a network node, also termed a file switch (200) computer, between the client computers and the file servers (105, 106, 107, 108). To the client computers (1, 2, 3, 4), the file (200) switch appears to be a file server having enormous storage capabilities and high throughput. To the file servers (105, 106, 107, 108), the file switch (200) appears to be a client as it delegates a single transaction received from a client computer to multiple file servers (105, 106, 107, 108). The file switch (200) aggregates the file server's responses to the client computer's request and presents a single response back to the client computer. The file switch (200) performs this transaction aggregation function in a manner that is transparent to both the client computer (1, 2, 3, 4) and the file servers (105, 106, 107, 108).
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EP03814952A EP1584011A4 (en) 2003-01-02 2003-12-18 Metadata based file switch and switched file system

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US10/336,784 2003-01-02
US10/336,834 US7509322B2 (en) 2001-01-11 2003-01-02 Aggregated lock management for locking aggregated files in a switched file system
US10/336,834 2003-01-02
US10/336,832 US7512673B2 (en) 2001-01-11 2003-01-02 Rule based aggregation of files and transactions in a switched file system
US10/336,704 US6889249B2 (en) 2001-01-11 2003-01-02 Transaction aggregation in a switched file system
US10/336,832 2003-01-02
US10/336,704 2003-01-02
US10/336,835 2003-01-02
US10/336,833 US20040133606A1 (en) 2003-01-02 2003-01-02 Directory aggregation for files distributed over a plurality of servers in a switched file system
US10/336,784 US7788335B2 (en) 2001-01-11 2003-01-02 Aggregated opportunistic lock and aggregated implicit lock management for locking aggregated files in a switched file system
US10/336,833 2003-01-02
US10/336,835 US7383288B2 (en) 2001-01-11 2003-01-02 Metadata based file switch and switched file system

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