PATHNAME TRANSLATION METHOD AND SYSTEM

摘要

A pathname translation method and system for translating a pathname that comprises one or more components (314). The system including a file system and an operation system (102); operable to perform pathname translation by searching for the components in a directory cache (308), and searching the file system for any in components not located in the directory cache (310); the directory cache contains pathname translations for substantially all of the directories in the file system.