Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery – Data processing system error or fault handling – Reliability and availability
Patent
1998-05-12
1999-10-12
Beausoliel, Jr., Robert W.
Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery
Data processing system error or fault handling
Reliability and availability
714 3, 709212, 709217, 709219, G06F 1100
Patent
active
059648864
ABSTRACT:
A cluster implements a virtual disk system that provides each node of the cluster access to each storage device of the cluster. The virtual disk system provides high availability such that a storage device may be accessed and data access requests are reliably completed even in the presence of a failure. To ensure consistent mapping and file permission data among the nodes, data are stored in a highly available cluster database. Because the cluster database provides consistent data to the nodes even in the presence of a failure, each node will have consistent mapping and file permission data. A cluster transport interface is provided that establishes links between the nodes and manages the links. Messages received by the cluster transports interface are conveyed to the destination node via one or more links. The configuration of a cluster may be modified during operation. Prior to modifying the configuration, a reconfiguration procedure suspends data access requests and waits for pending data access requests to complete. The reconfiguration is performed and the mapping is modified to reflect the new configuration. The node then updates the internal representation of the mapping and resumes issuing data access requests.
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Herndon Robert
Slaughter Gregory L.
Traversat Bernard A.
Zheng Xiaoyan
Beausoliel, Jr. Robert W.
Kivlin B. Noel
Shaw Brian H.
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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