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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2004
Dan Teodosiu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Brian K. Dewey, Seattle, WA (US);
Andrew M. Herron, Redmond, WA (US);
Dan Teodosiu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Brian K. Dewey, Seattle, WA (US);
Andrew M. Herron, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An improved system and method for transparent storage reorganization is provided. A reorganization server may be used to consolidate storage from many servers to fewer servers or to distribute storage from a few servers to many servers. To do so, a legacy server name may be aliased to the network address of a reorganization server. The contents and permissions of each legacy share may then be copied to a unique share name on another server. A root may next be created on the reorganization server using the legacy server name, and a link that points to the legacy share copied on the other server may be created on that root. Any client may then request access to the relocated legacy share using the legacy share name.