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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2013
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Chris Stacey, Jr., Christchurch, NZ;
John Cardente, Milford, MA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for adopting and controlling storage resources of a distributed file system using an acquired namespace metadata service. For example, a computing system includes a first file system, and a distributed file system, which is separate from the first file system. The distributed file system includes storage nodes for storing data. The first file system includes an acquired namespace metadata server that is configured to execute on one or more nodes of the first file system. To adopt and control storage resources of the distributed file system, the first file system acquires a namespace of the distributed file system and uses the acquired namespace metadata server to manage the acquired namespace of the distributed file system. Moreover, the first file system uses the acquired namespace metadata server to directly communicate with and control access to the storage nodes of the distributed file system.