METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MULTI-STREAM INPUT/OUTPUT REQUESTS IN A NETWORK FILE SERVER

摘要

A method, apparatus, and computer usable code to manage data requests in a file system. A file access request is received from a client data processing system for a file access operation on a file in the file system. A determination is made as to whether the entry is present for the client in response to receiving the file access request. An open request is sent to the file system to open the file in response to the entry being absent. A cookie is received from the file system in response to sending the open request. An entry is created for the client and file with the cookie, and the file access request is sent to the file system using the cookie. Subsequent file access requests are sent to the file system using the same cookie in response to the entry being present.