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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2010
Fengcheng LU, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kang Wei, Beijing, CN;
Uresh Vahalia, Newton, MA (US);
Jean-pierre B. Bono, Westborough, MA (US);
Fengcheng Lu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kang Wei, Beijing, CN;
Uresh Vahalia, Newton, MA (US);
Jean-Pierre B. Bono, Westborough, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method, system and apparatus of a file locking within a network file system federated namespace is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a target file in a storage medium over a network through an intermediate proxy server using a processor. The storage medium may be any one storage medium of a group of storage mediums on the network forming a data sharing cluster. In addition, the method includes locking the target file in the storage medium through a lock protocol to enable an access to modify the target file to at most one user at any given time, via the intermediate proxy server.