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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2009
Balemurughan Kumaresan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Raghupathi Malige, San Jose, CA (US);
Charles H. Silvers, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Joseph M. Maionchi, Vallejo, CA (US);
Pramodh Pisupati, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sunil Kumar Tekkatte Subramanya, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Balemurughan Kumaresan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Raghupathi Malige, San Jose, CA (US);
Charles H. Silvers, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Joseph M. Maionchi, Vallejo, CA (US);
Pramodh Pisupati, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sunil Kumar Tekkatte Subramanya, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Various methods and systems can be used to provide standard file system access to data that is originally accessed only by a proprietary interface. One such method involves querying an application (e.g., a database management system) for information identifying a location of each of several data objects within several volumes. The application provides a proprietary interface to the data objects stored on the volumes. The method then creates metadata, which associates each of several files within a new file system with the location of a respective one of the data objects within the volumes. The metadata can be created by an in-place conversion module implemented on a computing device. The method then provides the application with access to the files within the new file system, subsequent to creating the metadata.