Concurrency classes for shared file systems

Details Concurrency classes for shared file systems Concurrency classes for shared file systems

2007-08-07

2007-08-07

Wong, Don (Department: 2163)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

C707S793000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10315820

ABSTRACT:
A method, apparatus and computer product wherein means and mechanisms are provided whereby, in a distributed or clustered shared file system, (1) concurrency classes may be defined specifying granularity of locking, whether locks are cached, and whether modified data is written-through at the completion of updates, (2) certain files, file types, or files and/or file types as used by given applications or classes of applications, may be associated with concurrency classes, and (3) for each usage of a file by an application, the associated concurrency class determines a policy for choosing specific concurrency and coherency control mechanisms to be used for accessing the given file.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5615373 (1997-03-01), Ho
patent: 6546443 (2003-04-01), Kakivaya et al.
patent: 6889249 (2005-05-01), Miloushev et al.
J. T. Robinson A Fast General Purpose Hardware Synchronization Mechanism, Proceedings of the 1985 ACM-SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, pp. 122-130.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

Rating

Concurrency classes for shared file systems does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Concurrency classes for shared file systems, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Concurrency classes for shared file systems will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-3851073