Patent ID: 8694464

Claim:
A computer-implemented method, comprising: closing a file system to use; for each of one or more existing nodes in the file system: identifying one or more pending notifications of updates that have been performed on the node; and sending the one or more pending notifications to one or more other nodes, each of the one or more existing nodes and each of the one or more other nodes being a file or a directory in the file system while the file system is closed to use; opening the file system for use, the sending of the one or more pending notifications to the one or more other nodes occurring before the opening of the file system for use; and updating the one or more other nodes in response to the one or more pending notifications while the file system is open for use, the updating of the one or more other nodes while the file system is open for use being done in response to the one or more pending notifications being sent before opening the file system for use.