SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING A CLIENT SYSTEM TO GENERATE FILE SYSTEM OPERATIONS ON A FILE SYSTEM DATA SET USING A VIRTUAL NAMESPACE

摘要

A file system data set is scanned to (i) identify the file system objects of the file system data set, and (ii) obtain contextual data and metadata for file system objects of the file system data set. A virtual namespace for the file system data set is then constructed using the contextual data and the metadata. From a computer system, one or more atomic file system operations are issued to exercise the file system data set using the virtual namespace.

主权项

1. A method for operating a client system to exercise a file system data set, the method being implemented by one or more processors and comprising:
scanning the file system data set to (i) identify the file system objects of the file system data set, and (ii) each of contextual data and metadata for file system objects of the file system data set; determining a virtual namespace for the file system data set using the contextual data and the metadata; and implementing, from a client computer, one or more file system operations on the file system data set using the virtual namespace.