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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2014
Filed:
May. 06, 2010
Edward R. Zayas, Milpitas, CA (US);
Thomas Haynes, Tulsa, OK (US);
John Francis Gillono, North Chelmsford, MA (US);
Andy C. Kahn, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sreelatha S. Reddy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Edward R. Zayas, Milpitas, CA (US);
Thomas Haynes, Tulsa, OK (US);
John Francis Gillono, North Chelmsford, MA (US);
Andy C. Kahn, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sreelatha S. Reddy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method maintains mappings from data containers to their parent directories within a file system of a storage system. Each inode is modified to include a primary name data structure comprising a parent directory inode and a parent directory cookie value. The parent directory cookie value identifies a particular directory entry within a specified block of a directory identified by parent directory inode. An alternate name file is utilized to store alternate names, such as those associated with hard links.