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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2015
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
John M. Bent, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Sorin Faibish, Newton, MA (US);
Dennis Pei Jean Ting, Groton, MA (US);
Uday K. Gupta, Westford, MA (US);
Percy Tzelnic, Cambridge, MA (US);
Gary Grider, Los Alamos, NM (US);
David J. Bonnie, Los Alamos, NM (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Triad National Security, LLC, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Abstract
Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, a system, and a computer program product for maintaining dynamically loadable namespaces. The method includes presenting, to an application, a file system having a global single namespace (SN) comprising a plurality of dynamically-loadable namespaces (DLNs) maintained in a capacity tier (CT) of object storage of a storage system. In response to a job submitted by the application, dynamically loading a first dynamically-loadable namespace, including the metadata only for the first dynamically-loadable namespace, associated with the job from the capacity tier of object storage into a fast tier (FT) of storage of the storage system.