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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2001
Edward A. Hubbard, Round Rock, TX (US);
Edward A. Hubbard, Round Rock, TX (US);
Niration Network Group, L.L.C., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Software-based network attached storage (NAS) services are hosted on a massively distributed processing system configured by coupling a multiplicity of distributed devices with a network, wherein each of the distributed devices are enabled to process workloads for the distributed processing system by a client agent program. More particularly, the client agent program is configured with a NAS software component to enable selected distributed devices from the multiplicity of distributed devices to appear to client devices coupled to the network as dedicated NAS devices. The NAS software component allocates an available amount of storage resources in the selected distributed devices to provide NAS services to the client devices. Storage priority controls, including user specified constraints, standard bit, block and file priority levels, and direct bit, block or file priority markings may be utilized to facilitate the full use of the available amounts of unused storage in the selected distributed devices.