Patent ID: 9696944
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,Y10S

Claim:
1. A file system for storing a file comprising: a plurality of vdisks, each vdisk having a plurality of non-transient storage segments, each segment providing a specific class of service (CoS) for storage, each vdisk having a plurality of inodes stored in an inode table, each inode describing a file in the vdisk, each inode of each vdisk storing data on one or more of a plurality segments, each segment having a different class of service for storage: and a controller having a plurality of physical processors which store data of file in an inode of a vdisk, in one or more segments that vdisk, each processor serving one or more of the vdisks, each vdisk is an arbitrary collection of directories and files, and at least one file is stored in at least two segments.