Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Accessing snapshots of a time based file system
- Patent Title (中): 访问基于时间的文件系统的快照
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Application No.: US12428414Application Date: 2009-04-22
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Publication No.: US08392481B2Publication Date: 2013-03-05
- Inventor: Kenneth Wayne Boyd , Kenneth Fairclough Day, III , Douglas William Dewey , Christopher Diebold O'Toole
- Applicant: Kenneth Wayne Boyd , Kenneth Fairclough Day, III , Douglas William Dewey , Christopher Diebold O'Toole
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Konrad Raynes Davda & Victor LLP
- Agent Rabindranath Dutta
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F17/30

Abstract:
A file system driver stored in a computational device receives a request to provide access to a snapshot of a rewritable file system at a selected point in time, wherein a plurality of tokens corresponding to a plurality of data units are stored in the rewritable file system, and wherein an ordering relationship is maintained among the plurality of tokens. The file system driver determines a token corresponding to the selected point in time based on the ordering relationship. A virtual subdirectory name is generated corresponding to the determined token. A virtual subdirectory is created with the generated virtual subdirectory name, wherein the virtual subdirectory is a subdirectory of a root directory. The snapshot is accessed via the subdirectory.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100274764A1 ACCESSING SNAPSHOTS OF A TIME BASED FILE SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2010-10-28
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