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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2008
Christopher Frank Kime, Austin, TX (US);
Christopher Frank Kime, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, an apparatus, a system, and a computer program product are presented for determining whether a file system resource is a file system resource that is contained within a file system that can be automounted by a data processing system. A target file system resource is identified, after which a first file system data structure that represents a file system that contains the target file system resource is identified using a file system resource data structure that represents the target file system resource. If it is determined that the first file system data structure identifies a file system resource data structure that represents an automount point, the target file system resource is marked as an automount file system resource. File system resource data structures that represent hierarchically more inclusive file system resources are traversed if necessary to search for an automount point.