Fair sampling in a hierarchical filesystem
AssigneeQumulo, Inc.
InventorsPeter Godman, Kevin O'Neill, Thomas Urban, Graeme Williams
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AssigneeQumulo, Inc.
InventorsPeter Godman, Kevin O'Neill, Thomas Urban, Graeme Williams
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A software and hardware facility persistently maintains metrics on directories at different levels within a tree of a filesystem. The facility hierarchically aggregates attributes of files contained by directories and stores them as metric values in inode date of each directory within a tree. The stored metric values represent summed or otherwise aggregated data from the descendant directories and files. The metric values are utilized to provide representative compositional samplings of data in the filesystem tree structure. Based on the metric value in its inode data, each directory is weighted in a manner that determines the likelihood that each file sample is taken from that directory.
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A method for sampling data in a hierarchical filesystem tree, the method comprising:
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A computer-readable medium having contents capable of causing a computing system to perform a method for sampling data in a hierarchical filesystem tree, the method comprising:
A system for sampling data in a hierarchical filesystem tree, the system comprising:
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