Patent ID: 7720796
Filing Date: 2010-05-18
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving NAS (Network Attached Storage) file handles at a storage network switch, the NAS file handles including locations of objects on a source file server; sending switch file handles to a client device, the switch file handles representative of the objects and independent of the locations of the objects; mirroring at the storage network switch a namespace including the locations of the objects on the source file server, wherein the namespace is stored on the source file server and is mirrored from the source file server to a mirrored namespace on a destination file server; replicating the objects from the source file server to the destination file server; receiving at the storage network switch a request to modify an object associated with the namespace from the client device; and sending at the storage network switch the request to modify the object associated with the namespace to both the source file server and the destination file server, wherein the source file server and the destination file server modify corresponding objects in the namespace and the mirrored namespace.