SYSTEM FOR USING DIRECTORY SERVICES, METHOD FOR USING DIRECTORY SERVICES, COMPUTER-READY STORAGE DEVICE.

摘要

Efficient Distributed File System Upgrades A directory services implementation is provided to associate distributed file system links (dfs) with individual directory objects, and metadata for their attributes, to enable leveraging directory services characteristics for dfs to a given namespace. For example, updating directory objects with modified dfs link-related metadata only requires that the link-related directory object be updated instead of an entire directory object related to the corresponding namespace. In addition, directory services functionality such as query can be used with dfs to provide efficient location of updated records. In this respect, efficient dfs replication across a network is facilitated.