Data Policy Management System and Method for Managing Data
AssigneeSun Microsystems, Inc.
InventorsJoseph M. Cychosz, Harriet Gladys Coverston
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Abstract
A method for managing data includes identifying nodes of an archiving file system executing on one or more computers that have been updated, acquiring time ordered node state change events within the archiving file system, storing the node state change events, and reading the stored node state change events. The method further includes acquiring current information contained within the nodes that has been updated, updating data contained within a database system executing on the one or more computers to reflect the acquired information, querying the database system, and enforcing data policies upon the archiving file system based on the results of the query.
Claims18
A data policy management system comprising:
- one or more computers configured to execute
- an archiving file system,
- a database system,
- at least one asynchronous update process, wherein the archiving file system is configured to inform the at least one asynchronous update process of nodes that have been updated, and wherein the at least one asynchronous update process is configured to (i) acquire current information contained within the nodes that has been updated and (ii) update data contained within the database system to reflect the acquired information, and
- at least one data policy manager process configured to (i) query the database system and (ii) enforce a set of data policies upon the archiving file system based on results of the query.
A method for managing data comprising:
- identifying nodes of an archiving file system executing on one or more computers that have been updated;
- acquiring time ordered node state change events within the archiving file system;
- storing the node state change events;
- reading the stored node state change events;
- acquiring current information contained within the nodes that has been updated;
- updating data contained within a database system executing on the one or more computers to reflect the acquired information;
- querying the database system;
- and
- enforcing data policies upon the archiving file system based on the results of the query.
A computer storage medium having information stored thereon for directing one or more computers to (i) identify nodes of an archiving file system that have been updated, (ii) acquire time ordered node state change events within the archiving file system, (iii) store the node state change events, (iv) read the stored node state change events, (v) acquire current information contained within the nodes that has been updated, (vi) update data contained within a database system to reflect the acquired information, (vii) query the database system, and (viii) enforce data policies upon the archiving file system based on the results of the query.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.