Hitachi Data Systems Engineering UK Limited

Hitachi Vantara Corporation

Chris Aston

Daniel Picken

Jon Smith

Joseph Smith

Zahra Tabaaloute

James Gibbs

Richard Powell

Timothy Warner

Ray Brown

Michael Benson

Namita Lal

Zahra Badey

Mike Benson

The present disclosure relates to management of cloned objects and corresponding snapshot objects in file systems by a file server. Aspects may relate to one or more processes for managing file system objects of a file system in a data storage system comprising a file system server, wherein the file system server comprises: a computer system including a processor configured to execute an operating system and further software components executed on the operating system, and a programmable logic device interfacing with the computer system and including a file system management unit configured to manage a file system.

Management of cloned objects in file systems

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for data migration of a first file system in a data storage system comprising a plurality of client computers, a first file system managing unitfor managing the first file system and being connected to the plurality of client computers, and a second file system managing unitfor managing a second file system and being connected to the first file system managing unit, the second file system comprising a plurality of data files and the first file system comprising a plurality of external link objects, each external link object of the first file system being associated with a respective data file of the second file system for enabling client access to the respective data file of the second file system.

Method and apparatus for migration of a virtualized file system, data storage system for migration of a virtualized file system, and file server for use in a data storage system

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