IMPLEMENTING APPLICATION SPECIFIC MANAGEMENT POLICIES ON A CONTENT ADDRESSED STORAGE DEVICE

摘要

Implementing application specific management policies (316) on a content addressed storage device (308) is disclosed. In one embodiment, each data object stored on the content addressed storage device is associated with one of a plurality of data sets (312). A corresponding data set specific management policy is associated with at least each of a subset of said plurality of data sets. The applicable data set specific management policy is applied to the data objects of each data set with which a corresponding data set specific management policy has been associated.