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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
David P Anderson, Berkeley, CA (US);
James A Moorer, San Rafael, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sonic Solutions, Novato, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711129 ; 711113 ; 711118 ; 711137 ; 711171 ; 711173 ; 711153 ; 711168 ; 707104 ; 707205 ; 709203 ; 709214 ; 709215 ; 709216 ; 709217 ; 709218 ; 709219 ; 709234 ; 710 52 ; 710 56 ; 710 60 ;
Abstract
A distributed file system with dedicated nodes capable of being connected to workstations at their bus. The system uses a complementary client-side and server-side file caching method that increases parallelism by issuing multiple server requests to keep the hardware devices busy simultaneously. Most of the node memory is used for file caching and input/output (I/O) device buffering using dynamic memory organization, reservation and allocation methods for competing memory-intensive activities.