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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2021
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for managing access to a block device. An example method includes receiving, by a processing device from an entity operating in a cloud-computing environment, a memory access command referencing a block device of a distributed storage system that is accessible by a plurality of entities of the cloud computing environment; identifying a data structure associated with the referenced block device, wherein the data structure identifies entities of the cloud-computing environment that are allowed access to the block device; determining, in view of the data structure, whether the entity is allowed access to the block device by the memory access command; and responsive to determining that the entity is allowed access to the block device by memory access command, executing the memory access command.