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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 28, 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);
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);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method verifies and restores the consistency of inode to pathname mappings. In a first embodiment, an off-line verification procedure is modified to verify and correct the primary name inode to pathname mapping information within inodes of a file system. In a second embodiment, an on-line file system verification process is modified to verify inode to pathname mapping information upon the loading of each inode within the file system.