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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2011
Shekhar S. Deshkar, Pune, IN;
Abhijeet P. Gole, Cupertino, CA (US);
Premkumar Mahadev Nikam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shekhar S. Deshkar, Pune, IN;
Abhijeet P. Gole, Cupertino, CA (US);
Premkumar Mahadev Nikam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Marvell World Trade Ltd., , BB;
Abstract
Apparatuses, methods, and other embodiments associated with distributed metadata caching are described. According to one embodiment, a method includes intercepting a metadata request intended for an NFS server and communicating with a member of the set of peers to satisfy the metadata request from a distributed metadata cache maintained by the set of peers. The metadata request will have originated from a member of a set of peers participating in peer-to-peer distributed metadata caching.