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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2009
Collin Park, Redwood City, CA (US);
Trond Myklebust, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Pete Wyckoff, Durham, NC (US);
Collin Park, Redwood City, CA (US);
Trond Myklebust, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Pete Wyckoff, Durham, NC (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
One or more aspects of the disclosure relate to techniques for accessing a file stored in a clustered computing network, where the file is stored in the clustered computing network in a plurality of related volumes that stem from a particular (e.g., parent) volume. In the method, a request to retrieve the file from the particular volume is received at the client. The client then determines whether the file is stored in a client memory so as to be identified with the particular volume. If the file is not stored in the client memory so as to be identified with the particular volume, then the file is retrieved from a different but related volume.