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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017
Filed:
May. 02, 2014
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Richard P. Jernigan, IV, Sewickley, PA (US);
Robert Wyckoff Hyer, Jr., Seven Fields, PA (US);
Daniel Tennant, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
NETAPP, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for adaptive data placement in a distributed file system is provided. Upon creation of a new subdirectory, a first heuristic procedure is formed to determine whether the newly created subdirectory should be created locally or on a remote flexible volume. Should it be determination be made to create or store the subdirectory on a remote flexible volume, a second heuristic procedure determines which of a plurality of flexible volumes should store the newly created subdirectory.
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