US 12,073,228 B2
Information handling system supporting distributed file system and compound namespace in pre-boot environment
Shekar Babu Suryanarayana, Bangalore (IN); and Srikanth Krishnamurthy, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Jul. 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/382,112.
Prior Publication US 2023/0029401 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01); G06F 16/188 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 9/4416 (2013.01) [G06F 16/182 (2019.01); G06F 16/188 (2019.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A network boot method, comprising:
sending, by a unified extensible firmware image (UEFI) client executing on a client platform, a client request for a secure message block (SMB) connection with a remote server;
negotiating an augmented capability (AC) protocol with the remote server;
mounting a root directory for a virtual distributed namespace (VDN), wherein the VDN encompasses a plurality of remote shares; and
conveying profile metadata, indicative of a profile for each of the plurality of remote shares, to the remote server to establish the remote server as a remote VDN (RVND) server;
wherein the RVDN server is configured to:
establish an SMB session with each of the remote shares responsive to receiving the client request; and
responsive to receiving a data request from the UEFI client, generate a compound SMB request comprising a plurality of remote share data requests including a remote share data request corresponding to each of the plurality of remote shares.