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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2008
Richard P. Jernigan, Iv, Sewickley, PA (US);
Omprakaash Thoppai, Wexford, PA (US);
Richard P. Jernigan, IV, Sewickley, PA (US);
Omprakaash Thoppai, Wexford, PA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a mechanism for storing and accessing attributes of a data container (e.g., characteristics such as a name of a data container used to perform a lookup operation against the data container) in cache memory within storage systems in a cluster of storage systems. Further, a mechanism is provided so that an attribute of a data container is inserted into a cache memory of preferably one storage system (in the cluster) that caches metadata of the data container (e.g., information describing the data container). As a result, a lookup operation for a data container is directed to and served by the storage system that caches the metadata and the attribute of the data container.