Patent ID: 9660962
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for validating operation of a network-attached storage gateway, the method comprising: receiving, by a validation module, an indication to validate operation of a network-attached storage gateway, wherein the network-attached storage gateway communicatively couples a client and an object store; generating, by the validation module, a virtual namespace based, at least in part, on a network-based file system implemented by the network-attached storage gateway; selecting, by the validation module, a first file system entity from the virtual namespace; determining, by the validation module, a first identifier of a first object in the object store, wherein the first object corresponds to the first file system entity; retrieving, by the validation module, the first object from the object store based, at least in part, on the first identifier, wherein the first object is retrieved from the object store by bypassing the network-attached storage gateway; and determining, by the validation module, whether the first object matches the first file system entity.