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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2006
Scott D. Kaiser, Belmont, CA (US);
Ronald S. Karr, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John A. Colgrove, Los Altos, CA (US);
Scott D. Kaiser, Belmont, CA (US);
Ronald S. Karr, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John A. Colgrove, Los Altos, CA (US);
Symantec Operating Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Configuration data, such as options a file system accessed by a host system, may be stored on the storage device storing the file system. File system configuration data may be stored in a file of the file system or in a private storage area configured for storing file system configuration data. A host may access the file system configuration data and subsequently may access the file system according to the file system configuration data. Additionally, different versions of file system configuration data may be stored and different hosts accessing the file system may read and use different versions of the file system configuration data based upon the type or context of the host accessing the file system. Storing file system configuration data with the file system data, or on the same storage device, may allow context dependent options to be provided to various hosts accessing the file system data.