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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2020
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Bradley Gene Calder, Bellevue, WA (US);
Andrew James Edwards, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ishai Ben Aroya, Seattle, WA (US);
David Allen Goebel, Vashon, WA (US);
Jiesheng Wu, Redmond, WA (US);
Jaidev Haridas, Redmond, WA (US);
Shuvabrata Ganguly, Seattle, WA (US);
Matthew Douglas Hendel, Seattle, WA (US);
Ozan Demir, Seattle, WA (US);
Jean Ghanem, Redmond, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In various embodiments, methods and systems for providing access to file systems are provided. An SFA-based operation having an operation modifier for a file in a file system is received. The SFA-based operation is defined based on a file-representational state transfer (REST) interface. The SFA-REST interface comprises integrated functionality of an SFA protocol and REST protocol. The SFA-based operation is executed using the operation modifier. A REST-based operation for the file in the distributed file storage is received. The REST-based operation is defined based on the SFA-REST interface. The operation modifier is referenced in order to execute the REST-based operation. The REST-based operation based on the SFA-REST interface. A schema can be implemented for accessing the file system. The schema includes tables to store files, the table comprises fields corresponding to elements of a SFA-REST interface. A snapshot component can be implemented to backup file shares in the file system.