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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2012
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Marc A. Kaplan, Hawthorne, NY (US);
Wayne A. Sawdon, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3007 (2013.01); G06F 17/30165 (2013.01); G06F 17/30129 (2013.01);
Abstract
Managing a shared file system comprising a directory and files stored on a multiple storage devices shared by plural processing nodes, is provided. A plurality of parallel directory traversal records are partitioned into a plurality of ranges to allow for the records in each range to be written independently in parallel by plural processing nodes during parallel directory traversal. Parallel operations are performed comprising parallel directory traversal of all directory paths and files in the shared file system.