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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2023
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Shiv S. Kumar, Pune, IN;
DELL PRODUCTS L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A system can maintain respective extended attributes for respective files in a file system, wherein the respective extended attributes comprise respective first-in-first-out (FIFO) queues of user identities that have been determined to have modified the respective files. The system can receive an indication to perform a delete operation on a first portion of the file system, wherein the indication is indicative of a first user identity for which files are to be preserved. The system can, in response to receiving the indication, evaluate the respective files, comprising in response to determining that the first user identity is omitted from a FIFO queue of the respective FIFO queues, delete a file of the respective files that corresponds to the FIFO queue; and in response to determining that the first user identity is identified in the FIFO queue, refrain from deleting the file.