Selection of migration methods including partial read restore in distributed storage management

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8055724
APP PUB NO 20060212746A1
SERIAL NO

11085898

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A hierarchical storage system is constructed from file servers and a policy engine server by building upon a file migration service. Offline attributes are added to file system inodes in a primary file server, file system parameters are added in the primary server, an offline read access method field is added to a connection database, and the primary file server is programmed to use these attributes and parameters for selecting a particular method (such as a partial read migration or a pass through read method) for read access to an offline file. In this fashion, the primary file server is provided with flexibility for selecting a particular one of a number of migration methods depending on various conditions, in order to improve the trade-off between the cost of storage and delay in file access.

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EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC176 SOUTH STREET HOPKINTON MA 01748

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Amegadzie, Augustine Warren, US 2 130
Compton, James T Durham, US 7 441
Gross, Jerald W Edison, US 2 127
Rago, Stephen A Warren, US 8 321
Stacey, Christopher H Swindon, GB 12 1278
Zimran, Eyal Richmond, GB 11 1267

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