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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2019
Applicant:
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Jean-Pierre Bono, Westborough, MA (US);
Sudhir Srinivasan, Acton, MA (US);
Assignee:
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/11 (2019.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01); G06F 16/188 (2019.01); G06F 16/174 (2019.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/128 (2019.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 11/2033 (2013.01); G06F 11/2064 (2013.01); G06F 11/2069 (2013.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/1744 (2019.01); G06F 16/1748 (2019.01); G06F 16/183 (2019.01); G06F 16/188 (2019.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01);
Abstract
A technique for managing data objects in a data storage cluster realizes an application-accessible data object within a file that belongs to an internal file system. The internal file system runs on a computing node of the cluster and is backed by a LUN realized in block storage. The storage cluster achieves snapshots of the data object at the level of the file system, e.g., by snapshotting the file, such that the data object and its snapshots are all backed by the same LUN in the block storage.