Oracle International Corporation

Jinfei Zhang

Mark Maybee

James Kremer

Gavin G Gibson

Victor Latushkin

Pascal Ledru

Ankit Gureja

Kimberly Morneau

Natalie Ross

Techniques described herein relate to systems and methods of data storage, and more particularly to providing layering of file system functionality on an object interface. In certain embodiments, file system functionality may be layered on cloud object interfaces to provide cloud-based storage while allowing for functionality expected from a legacy applications. For instance, POSIX interfaces and semantics may be layered on cloud-based storage, while providing access to data in a manner consistent with file-based access with data organization in name hierarchies. Various embodiments also may provide for memory mapping of data so that memory map changes are reflected in persistent storage while ensuring consistency between memory map changes and writes. For example, by transforming a ZFS file system disk-based storage into ZFS cloud-based storage, the ZFS file system gains the elastic nature of cloud storage.

File system hierarchies and functionality with cloud object storage

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Newark, CA, United States of America

Jinfei Zhang