Netapp, Inc.

J Chris Wagner

David A Grunwald

Robert M English

Jason Ansel Lango

Ashish Prakash

Qinghua Zheng

Matthew Benjamin Amdur

Paul Christopher Eastham

Kartik Ayyar

Emmanuel Ackaouy

Peter Griess

Brian Mederic Quirion

Robert Lieh-Yuan Tsai

A network caching system has a multi-protocol caching filer coupled to an origin server to provide storage virtualization of data served by the filer in response to data access requests issued by multi-protocol clients over a computer network. The multi-protocol caching filer includes a file system configured to manage a sparse volume that 'virtualizes' a storage space of the data to thereby provide a cache function that enables access to data by the multi-protocol clients. To that end, the caching filer further includes a multi-protocol engine configured to translate the multi-protocol client data access requests into generic file system primitive operations executable by both the caching filer and the origin server.

System and method for caching network file systems

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Langley, WA, United States of America

J Chris Wagner