Installable performance accelerator for maintaining a local cache storing data residing on a server computer
US5805809A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 26, 1995 |
| Grant date | Sep 8, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 26, 2015 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/182
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An installable performance accelerator for computer network distributed file systems is provided. A cache subsystem is added onto, or plugged into, an existing distributed file system with no source code modifications to the operating system. The cache subsystem manages a cache on the client computer side which traps file system calls to cached files in order to obtain an immediate and substantial performance increase in distributed file system performance.
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