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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2007
Qichu LU, Bellevue, WA (US);
Aaron J. Passey, Seattle, WA (US);
Nicholas Montgomery Kirsch, Seattle, WA (US);
Qichu Lu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Aaron J. Passey, Seattle, WA (US);
Nicholas Montgomery Kirsch, Seattle, WA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the disclosure relate generally to file systems. Specifically, certain embodiments include systems and methods for reading objects in a file system. In some embodiments, a first processing thread traverses a portion of a file system and represents file system objects in a data structure. A portion of the data and/or metadata associated with the represented objects may be prefetched to a memory. In some embodiments, a second processing thread consumes the objects represented in the queue. For example, in a file system backup embodiment, the second processing thread may transfer data and/or metadata associated with the objects to an archive target.