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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2024
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
George Mathew, Belmont, CA (US);
Donna Barry Lewis, Holly Springs, NC (US);
Poornima Gupte, Pune, IN;
Vikas Chaudhary, Pune, IN;
Ajey Godbole, Pune, IN;
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A file system redirector and proxy (FSRP) service is provided to clients as an entry point to a cluster having a deduplicated file system managing files backed up from the clients. The cluster includes nodes hosting access object (AoB) services as microservices and the file system includes a namespace organizing the files. Data is cached at each node hosting an AoB service. FSRP maintains a list of nodes currently available in the cluster. Upon FSRP receiving a request from a client, a determination is made as to whether the request includes a namespace operation or a file operation. When the request includes the namespace operation, a first algorithm is used to redirect the request to an AoB on the list based on the cached data. When the request includes the file operation, a second algorithm, different from the first algorithm, is used to redirect the request to an AoB on the list based on the cached data.