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Title: Method and system for reducing metadata overhead in a two-tier storage architecture

Abstract

Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, a system, and a computer program product for maintaining dynamically loadable namespaces. The method includes presenting, to an application, a file system having a global single namespace (SN) comprising a plurality of dynamically-loadable namespaces (DLNs) maintained in a capacity tier (CT) of object storage of a storage system. In response to a job submitted by the application, dynamically loading a first dynamically-loadable namespace, including the metadata only for the first dynamically-loadable namespace, associated with the job from the capacity tier of object storage into a fast tier (FT) of storage of the storage system.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Triad National Security, LLC, Los Alamos, NM (United States); EMC IP Holding Co. LLC, Hopkinton, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
OSTI Identifier:
1650797
Patent Number(s):
10628391
Application Number:
14/870,968
Assignee:
EMC IP Holding Company LLC (Hopkinton, MA); Triad National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, NM)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
G - PHYSICS G06 - COMPUTING G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
DOE Contract Number:  
89233218CNA000001
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 09/30/2015
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING

Citation Formats

Bent, John M., Faibish, Sorin, Ting, Dennis Pei Jean, Gupta, Uday K., Tzelnic, Percy, Grider, Gary, and Bonnie, David J.. Method and system for reducing metadata overhead in a two-tier storage architecture. United States: N. p., 2020. Web.
Bent, John M., Faibish, Sorin, Ting, Dennis Pei Jean, Gupta, Uday K., Tzelnic, Percy, Grider, Gary, & Bonnie, David J.. Method and system for reducing metadata overhead in a two-tier storage architecture. United States.
Bent, John M., Faibish, Sorin, Ting, Dennis Pei Jean, Gupta, Uday K., Tzelnic, Percy, Grider, Gary, and Bonnie, David J.. Tue . "Method and system for reducing metadata overhead in a two-tier storage architecture". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1650797.
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