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Date of Patent
June 15, 2010
Patent Application Number
10315582
Date Filed
December 9, 2002
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An embodiment of the invention provides a method and apparatus for constructing and maintaining a consistent hierarchical namespace in a wide-area distributed file system, where individual files and directories are replicated in the system. An embodiment of the invention provides a method and apparatus for achieving eventual data (file contents) and metadata (directory contents) consistency in a wide-area distributed file system.
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