Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tape drive system server
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Application No.: US14365242Application Date: 2012-11-20
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Publication No.: US09990395B2Publication Date: 2018-06-05
- Inventor: Evangelos S. Eleftheriou , Robert Haas , Nils Haustein , Jens Jelitto , Ioannis Koltsidas , Slavisa Sarafijanovic , Alexander Saupp , Harald Seipp
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Cantor Colburn LLP
- Priority: EP11194117 20111216
- International Application: PCT/IB2012/056564 WO 20121120
- International Announcement: WO2013/088284 WO 20130620
- Main IPC: G06F7/00
- IPC: G06F7/00 ; G06F17/30 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F12/0804 ; G06F12/0871 ; G06F12/123

Abstract:
A tape drive system server includes a non-volatile memory used as a cache memory for storing data files, at least part of the cache memory comprising a first region managed using a First In First Out policy management and a second region managed using a Least Recently Used policy management; a file system interface for interacting with data files stored on a tape drive system; an interface for allowing one or more remote systems reading and writing data stored on the cache memory; the server configured to: receive from the one or more remote systems one or more write requests for writing one or more data files; interpret attributes associated to data files instructed to be written by the one or more remote systems; and store data files instructed to be written by the remote systems according to the interpreted attributes.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140330817A1 TAPE DRIVE SYSTEM SERVER Public/Granted day:2014-11-06
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