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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2017
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Srinivasa Shantharam, Bangalore, IN;
Pradeep Krishnamurthy, Bangalore, IN;
Asit Desai, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Prasanna Aithal, Bangalore, IN;
Bryan Branstetter, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Prasad Rao Jangam, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mahesh S Hiregoudar, Bangalore, IN;
Raghavan Pichai, Bangalore, IN;
Vivek Patidar, Bangalore, IN;
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
System and method for executing a file system operation for a computer system utilize a computed hash value of a file system object to access a hash block of a file system directory stored in a storage system to locate a hash slot corresponding to the computed hash value. Using at least one of a hash pointer in the hash slot and an allocation block of the file system directory, a dirent slot in a dirent block of the file system directory is located to perform an operational task on the particular dirent slot to execute the file system operation.