Facilitating antivirus scan filing locking based on cluster lock mechanism in distributed file systems

A method, comprising:

• selectively caching, by a system comprising a processor, data related to an antivirus scan status of an object, resulting in a cached antivirus scan status, wherein object antivirus scanning is a prerequisite to an opening of the object, and wherein the antivirus scan status of the object is determined to be one from a group of statuses comprising an unscanned status, a queued status, and a scanned status;
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• based on a request to open the object received, as an open object request, from a node of a group of nodes and based on the cached antivirus scan status of the object being the queued status or the scanned status, selectively causing the opening of the object at the node while bypassing the prerequisite, wherein a scan of the object is not performed in response to the request to open the object,
• wherein the unscanned status indicates that a previous antivirus scan to determine a virus status of the object was not performed prior to receipt of the request, wherein the queued status indicates an active antivirus scan is in process and has not completed prior to receipt of the request to open the object, and wherein the scanned status indicates that a successful antivirus scan of the object has completed prior to the receipt of the open object request.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

• selectively storing data indicative of an antivirus scan state of an object, resulting in a stored antivirus scan state, wherein antivirus scanning of the object is a precondition for opening the object, wherein the antivirus scan state of the object is a scanned state, an unscanned state, or a queued state, wherein the antivirus scan state is a state determined prior to receipt of a request to open the object, and wherein node equipment is enabled for scanning of objects, including the object, before opening the objects;
• based on an open object request being received from node equipment of a group of node equipment and based on the antivirus scan state of the object determined to be the scanned state or the queued state, facilitating an opening of the object at the node equipment without an antivirus scan being performed in response to the request;
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• based on the open object request being received from the node equipment of the group of node equipment and the antivirus scan state of the object determined to be the unscanned state, performing an antivirus scanning of the object.