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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan, San Jose, CA (US);
Marc M. Eshel, San Jose, CA (US);
Roger L. Haskin, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Dean Hildebrand, San Jose, CA (US);
Manoj P. Naik, San Jose, CA (US);
Frank B. Schmuck, Campbell, CA (US);
Renu Tewari, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system facilitates access to data in a network. One implementations includes a caching layer function that is configured to integrate into a local cluster file system, to cache local file data in a cache based on fetching file data on demand from a remote cluster file system, and to operate on a multi-node cache cluster. The cache is visible to file system clients as a Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) compliant file system, applications execute on the multi-node cache cluster using POSIX semantics via a POSIX compliant file system interface, and data cache is locally consistent for updates made at the multi-node cache cluster using distributed locking for the data cache.