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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2002
Jeffrey S. Kimmel, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Arthur Lent, Cambridge, MA (US);
Don Bolinger, Concord, MA (US);
Jeffrey S. Kimmel, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Arthur Lent, Cambridge, MA (US);
Don Bolinger, Concord, MA (US);
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A mechanism enables distributed atomic creation of client-private files using a distributed file system protocol. The mechanism provides an unlinked open operation that enables the distributed atomic creation of a client-private file that is not accessible by other clients. That is, the unlinked open operation creates a file, but does not generate a path name to the file within a file system. The unlinked open operation thus permits clients utilizing the file system protocol to create temporary or 'scratch files' that are not accessible by other clients.