Patent ID: 8032501
Filing Date: 2011-10-04
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An non-transitory computer readable medium comprising a set of computer instructions executable by a computer processor for: receiving a filesystem request identifying a requested operation on a filesystem object, where the filesystem request was generated by a filesystem client and is intended for a filesystem server; determining one or more of a set of rules to be applied based on the filesystem request by matching each of the set of rules to the filesystem request, wherein each rule comprises a pattern and an associated action and matching a rule to the filesystem request comprises: applying each of the one or more rules, wherein applying a rule comprises applying the action associated with the rule and applying the action comprises: determining if the action should be applied in-band or out-of-band; and applying the action, wherein if the action is to be applied is an in-band action the action is performed either before providing the filesystem request to the filesystem server or before returning a filesystem response to the filesystem client and if the action is to be applied is an out-of-band action the action is performed after returning the filesystem response to the filesystem client.