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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2011
Neeta Garimella, San Jose, CA (US);
Bernhard J. Klingenberg, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Ryan J. Minniear, Folsom, CA (US);
Mark A. Smith, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Neeta Garimella, San Jose, CA (US);
Bernhard J. Klingenberg, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Ryan J. Minniear, Folsom, CA (US);
Mark A. Smith, Los Gatos, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention relate to a virtual file system for communicating changes in metadata associated with data archived in a data storage system to applications. An aspect of the invention concerns a system that comprises a virtual file system for storing metadata files wherein each metadata file is associated with an archived data file, and a virtual file system interface coupled to the virtual file system for exposing changes in the metadata files to the applications.