Netapp, Inc.

Adam F Ciapponi

David Slik

Tym Altman

Xin Wang

Richard Jernigan

Dave Rose

Richard Chow

Brad Lisson

Subramanian Natarajan

Methods, non-transitory machine readable media, and computing devices that ensure correctness of file system analytics are disclosed. With this technology, a first generation number for a volume is incremented in response to a modification of a rule set that defines properties of objects of a file system associated with the volume. A determination is made when a second generation number in a first inode for a first one of the objects matches the first generation number. The first inode is identified based on a traversal of a directory tree associated with the file system. The modified rule set is applied to the properties for the first one of the objects to obtain values, when the second generation number fails to match the first generation number. Analytics data is output after the traversal has completed. The analytics data is generated in response to a query and is based on the values.

Methods for ensuring correctness of file system analytics and devices thereof

A system can apply file placement rules to dynamically place files and directories within file system views backed by objects in an object storage system. After detection of an update to a first file system view that causes an update of an object in a storage grid, an object manager begins evaluation of file placement rules against metadata of the object. For each file placement rule that is triggered, the object manager determines identifies gateways that export the first file system view. The object manager then instructs the gateways to update their representations of the first file system view. The disclosed embodiments may be able to scale to managing hundreds of billions of files spanning thousands of file system views, especially in the presence of disconnected operation.

Dynamic update to views of a file system backed by object storage

Systems and methods that allow operators to configure how files and directories are placed within file system views into a storage system, and how these configured file placements are performed by the distributed system. Possible features include a mechanism by which the desired placement of files and directories can be specified, a mechanism by which the placement goals can be realized in a given topology of a distributed system, and a mechanism by which changes to the placement of objects can applied retroactively. The disclosed embodiments may be able to scale to managing hundreds of billions of files spanning thousands of file system views, especially in the presence of disconnected operation.

Systems and methods for managing files in a content storage system

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Adam F Ciapponi