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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:
Apr. 05, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 31, 2015
Applicant:

Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Deepti Chheda, San Francisco, CA (US);

Diwaker Gupta, San Francisco, CA (US);

Vaibhav Kamra, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Nathan Rosenblum, San Francisco, CA (US);

Niraj Tolia, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/182 (2019.01); G06F 16/16 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/164 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01);
Abstract

Compounding file system metadata operations via buffering is disclosed. In various embodiments, an indication to send locally-stored file system operations to a remote file system metadata server is received. A dependency graph or other data structure reflecting dependencies between the locally-stored file system operations to identify a linear chain of dependent file system operations. Operations comprising the linear chain are combined into a compound file system operation. The compound file system operation is sent to the remote file system metadata server.


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