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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2012
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Evangelos S. Eleftheriou, Rueschlikon, CH;
Robert Haas, Rueschlikon, CH;
Nils Haustein, Mainz, DE;
Jens Jelitto, Rueschlikon, CH;
Ioannis Koltsidas, Rueschlikon, CH;
Slavisa Sarafijanovic, Rueschlikon, CH;
Alexander Saupp, Mainz, DE;
Harald Seipp, Mainz, DE;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A tape drive system server includes a non-volatile memory used as a cache memory for storing data files, at least part of the cache memory comprising a first region managed using a First In First Out policy management and a second region managed using a Least Recently Used policy management; a file system interface for interacting with data files stored on a tape drive system; an interface for allowing one or more remote systems reading and writing data stored on the cache memory; the server configured to: receive from the one or more remote systems one or more write requests for writing one or more data files; interpret attributes associated to data files instructed to be written by the one or more remote systems; and store data files instructed to be written by the remote systems according to the interpreted attributes.