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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 29, 2016
Applicant:

Veritas Technologies Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Bhautik Patel, Gujarat, IN;

Freddy James, Kerala, IN;

Mitul Kothari, Madhya Pradesh, IN;

Anindya Banerjee, Maharashtra, IN;

Assignee:

Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 12/0862 (2016.01); G06F 12/0868 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0862 (2013.01); G06F 12/0868 (2013.01); G06F 17/30132 (2013.01); G06F 17/30424 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1024 (2013.01); G06F 2212/463 (2013.01); G06F 2212/6026 (2013.01); G06F 2212/621 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes track access patterns of inodes, and to issue read-ahead instructions to pre-fetch inodes into memory. An inode is accessed and a directory of the inode is determined. Also determined is whether an entry for the directory exists in a global inode list. If the entry exists in the global inode list, whether a file structure of the directory is sequential or non-sequential is determined. If the entry does not exist in the global inode list, a new entry for the directory is added in the global inode list.


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