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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Gang Ma, West Roxbury, MA (US);
Sorin Faibish, Newton, MA (US);
James M. Pedone, Jr., West Boylston, MA (US);
John M. Bent, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Tao Peng, Beijing, CN;
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A cluster file system comprises a plurality of clients and a plurality of servers configured to communicate over a network. A given server of the cluster file system interfaces with an associated storage array, and comprises a block cache and a request translator. The request translator is configured to translate input-output requests in a protocol of the cluster file system to a format suitable for use with the block cache. The cluster file system may more particularly comprise a Lustre file system, and the given server may comprise a metadata server or an object storage server of the Lustre file system. In such an embodiment, the request translator is more particularly configured to translate Lustre client input-output requests directed to the storage array into block input-output requests that are processed by the block cache. The block cache is illustratively implemented using a VFCache or other type of server flash cache.