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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Luis Garces-Erice, Rueschlikon, CH;
John G. Rooney, Zurich, CH;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Data comprising a plurality of data blocks is provisioned to a distributed computing system, via a network, from remote data storage at a data-provider site. At a node computer of the distributed computing system, a network access client is provided for obtaining data blocks from the remote data storage via the network, and adaptation layer logic is provided for generating metadata for the data blocks in a file system of the distributed computing system. Also at the node computer, a copy-on-read driver is provided for accessing the remote data storage via the network access client and for accessing local data storage of the node computer. In response to a first read request corresponding to a data block from the node computer, the copy-on-read driver copies that data block from the remote data storage to the local data storage for use in the distributed computing system.