Extending metadata-driven capabilities in a metadata-centric filesystem
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsJoel Christner, Robert A. Lincourt, Eric Bruno
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Abstract
One example method includes declaring a management requirement for a collection of data, defining metadata that embodies the requirement, associating the management requirement with the collection of data, and performing a filesystem operation, with respect to the collection of data, based on the metadata. The declaring and defining operations may be performed by an administrator operating in a centralized datastore that includes a metadata repository, and the defined metadata may be stored in the metadata repository.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- declaring a management requirement for a collection of data;
- defining metadata that embodies the requirement;
- associating the management requirement with the collection of data;
- and
- performing a filesystem operation, with respect to the collection of data, based on the metadata.
A non-transitory storage medium having stored therein instructions that are executable by one or more hardware processors to perform operations comprising:
- declaring a management requirement for a collection of data;
- defining metadata that embodies the requirement;
- associating the management requirement with the collection of data;
- and
- performing a filesystem operation, with respect to the collection of data, based on the metadata.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.