Patent ID: 8261316

Claim:
System for retrieving a data-set, the system comprising: storage means for storing the data-set; at least one client being operable to read the data-set from the storage means; and a storage master being operable to receive an access-request from the client for accessing at least one data-file of the data-set in the storage means, and to send an access-message to the storage means, wherein the storage means is operable to cache further data-files or blocks thereof of the same data-set as a reaction to the access-message, wherein, the data-set comprises a plurality of data-files, which are interconnected by their content, whereby the access-message is generated on basis of an a-priori knowledge that in case one or some data-files of the data-set are retrieved it is likely that further data-files of the data-set will be retrieved by further requests.