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Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 03, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Deepavali M. Bhagwat, Cupertino, CA (US);

Marc Eshel, Morgan Hill, CA (US);

Dean Hildebrand, Bellingham, WA (US);

Wayne A. Sawdon, San Jose, CA (US);

Frank B. Schmuck, Campbell, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/188 (2019.01); G06F 16/17 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/1727 (2019.01); G06F 16/188 (2019.01);
Abstract

One embodiment provides a method for storage management in an aggregated file system. The method includes tracking inode numbers for sub-file systems of the aggregated file system. A request for a unique range of inode numbers in the aggregated file system is received. The unique range of inode numbers is provided to one or more sub-file systems of the aggregated file system while providing that each sub-file system of the aggregated file system has a required range of inode numbers and that no two sub-file systems have overlapping inode numbers.


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