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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2015
Dssd, Inc., Hopkinton, MA (US);
Michael W. Shapiro, San Francisco, CA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method including intercepting a OFR for a file issued by an application to a FS, forwarding the OFR to the FS, receiving from the FS a FD for the file, issuing a SR for the file to the FS. The further method includes receiving from the FS status information for a target device on which the file is located, where the status information includes an OID for the file, storing a mapping of FD to the OID, intercepting a first FOR for the file, making a determination the that the first FOR is one of a read request and a write request, based on the determination, making another determination that the target device supports the direct I/O protocol, and issuing a DI request to the target device using the OID for the file, where the DI request is not processed by the FS.