US 12,393,555 B2
Scaling and distributing namespaces and clients across multiple file system redirector proxies
Poornima Gupte, Pune (IN); George Mathew, Belmont, CA (US); Viral Kirtikumar Mehta, JamKhambhalia (IN); and Omkar Anand Ekbote, Pune (IN)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Jan. 19, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/417,267.
Prior Publication US 2025/0238402 A1, Jul. 24, 2025
Int. Cl. G06F 16/182 (2019.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 16/183 (2019.01) [G06F 9/542 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for managing data in a cluster, the method comprising:
receiving, by a global event manager of the cluster, a notification that an event has occurred on the cluster, wherein the cluster comprises a plurality of file system redirector proxy (FSRP) nodes,
wherein the event indicates that a change in the plurality of FSRP nodes operating in the cluster;
in response to the notification:
performing a load balancing analysis on the cluster to assign an export location of a file system export to a FSRP node of the plurality of FSRP nodes based on the change;
notifying each of the plurality of FSRP nodes in the cluster of the change and of the assigning;
updating a global export table based on the assigning of the export location to the FSRP node and based on the change,
wherein the notifying results in an update of a global export table of each of the plurality of FSRP nodes of the assigning of the export location to the FSRP node,
wherein prior to the notifying the export location was assigned to another one of the plurality of FSRP nodes, and
wherein the global export table is used to manage access to the file system export in the cluster by a client; and
exporting, by a cluster server of the cluster, a portion of the data associated with the file system, wherein the file system export comprises a portion of the data associated with the file system.