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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2008
Ramesh Shankar, Redmond, WA (US);
Daniel Edward Lovinger, Seattle, WA (US);
Chien-lung Yu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ramesh Shankar, Redmond, WA (US);
Daniel Edward Lovinger, Seattle, WA (US);
Chien-Lung Yu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A directory services implementation is provided to associate distributed file system (DFS) links with individual directory objects, and metadata to attributes thereof, to allow leveraging directory services features for DFS for a given namespace. For example, updating directory objects with modified metadata related to DFS links requires only that the directory object related to the link be updated rather than an entire directory object related to the corresponding namespace. Moreover, directory services functionalities such as querying can be utilized with DFS to provide efficient location of updated records. In this regard, efficient replication of DFS throughout a network is facilitated.