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Thomas R Vanderputten

Robert L Fair

One example method includes connecting to a fileserver of a data protection system, initiating, at a client, an operation that is associated with a master pseudofs of the fileserver, creating, at the client, a client-specific pseudofs based upon the master pseudofs, and the client-specific pseudofs includes only those nodes of the master pseudofs that the client is authorized to access, and performing the operation using the client-specific pseudofs.

Method for dynamic pseudofs creation and management in a network filesystem

One example method includes transmitting, from a client, a remote procedure call (RPC) to a fileserver of a data protection system, the RPC including information identifying an export, then receiving, at the client, node information concerning the export, and the node information concerns a master pseudofs of the fileserver. Finally, the example method includes creating, at the client, a sparse client-specific pseudofs that is based on the node information received from the fileserver, and the sparse client-specific pseudofs includes fewer than all the master pseudofs nodes that the client is authorized to access.

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Thomas R Vanderputten