18887533. FILE SYSTEM CLONING METHOD AND APPARATUS (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.)
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FILE SYSTEM CLONING METHOD AND APPARATUS
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Vaiapuri Ramasubramaniam of Karnataka (IN)
FILE SYSTEM CLONING METHOD AND APPARATUS
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18887533 titled 'FILE SYSTEM CLONING METHOD AND APPARATUS
Original Abstract Submitted
A file system cloning method and apparatus is provided. One example method includes: receiving, by a destination storage system, first information sent by a source storage system; creating, by the destination storage system, a cloned file system of the file system based on the first information; receiving, by the destination storage system, a first data read request, wherein the first data read request comprises an identifier of a first data block, wherein the first data block belongs to data of a file in the clone file system; sending, by the destination storage system, a first data obtaining request to the source storage system in response to the first data read request, wherein the first data obtaining request comprises the identifier of the first data block; and receiving, by the destination storage system, the first data block from the source storage system.
