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Patent No.:

US 8667035 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014

Filed:

Feb. 12, 2004

Method of converting a filesystem while the filesystem remains in an active state

Applicants:

Dennis Steven Delorme, Rochester, MN (US);

Margaret Rose Fenlon, Rochester, MN (US);

Robert Thaddeus Gintowt, Rochester, MN (US);

Alan Leon Levering, Rochester, MN (US);

Thomas Marcus Mcbride, Mantorville, MN (US);

Michael John Oberholtzer, Stewartville, MN (US);

Jeffrey John Parker, Rochester, MN (US);

Richard Michael Theis, Rochester, MN (US);

Jerry Leroy Von Berge, Byron, MN (US);

Inventors:

Dennis Steven DeLorme, Rochester, MN (US);

Margaret Rose Fenlon, Rochester, MN (US);

Robert Thaddeus Gintowt, Rochester, MN (US);

Alan Leon Levering, Rochester, MN (US);

Thomas Marcus McBride, Mantorville, MN (US);

Michael John Oberholtzer, Stewartville, MN (US);

Jeffrey John Parker, Rochester, MN (US);

Richard Michael Theis, Rochester, MN (US);

Jerry Leroy Von Berge, Byron, MN (US);

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Attorney:

Wood, Herron & Evans LLP

Primary Examiner:

Paul Kim

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A filesystem conversion process converts a filesystem from one implementation type to another type while the filesystem remains active and fully accessible. The conversion process builds a list of directories in the filesystem that are of the old filesystem type and then converts each directory until the entire filesystem is converted. Instead of the filesystem being shutdown to perform the conversion, the conversion process may run as a background thread that does not interfere with normal filesystem operations.

Find Patent Forward Citations

DeLorme, Dennis. (2014). Method of converting a filesystem while the filesystem remains in an active state (U.S. Patent No. 8667035). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8667035

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