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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2004
Dennis Steven Delorme, Rochester, MN (US);
Margaret Rose Fenlon, Rochester, MN (US);
Alan Leon Levering, Rochester, 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);
Dennis Steven DeLorme, Rochester, MN (US);
Margaret Rose Fenlon, Rochester, MN (US);
Alan Leon Levering, Rochester, 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);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A data structure used by an operating system to refer to a filesystem object includes information that permits the structure to be associated with filesystem objects having different filesystem implementations. The data structure is associated with a filesystem object that is linked into different directories that have different filesystem implementations. Therefore, the data structure includes respective information within it about each different link. As a result, a filesystem object, such as a directory, having one filesystem implementation may be created in or moved to another directory having a different filesystem implementation; or, a file may be linked in multiple directories having different implementations.