摘要:
Consistent updates are made automatically over a wide-area IP network, concurrently with read-only access to the remote copies. A replication control protocol (RCP) is layered over TCP/IP providing the capability for a remote site to replicate and rebroadcast blocks of the remote copy data to specified groups of destinations, as configured in a routing table. A volume multicast layer over RCP provides for multicasting to specified volume extents of the blocks. The blocks are copied at the logical level, so that it does not matter what physical structure is used for storing the remote copies. Save volumes buffer the remote copy data transmitted between the primary or secondary file system volume and the IP network, in order to ensure independence between the replication process, the IP transport method, and the primary file system being replicated.
摘要:
A file server maintains a production file system supported by a clone volume, and multiple snapshot file systems supported by respective save volumes in a snapshot queue. Before a data block is modified for the first time after creation of the youngest snapshot, the data block is copied from the clone volume to the save volume of the youngest snapshot. A bit map indicates the blocks that have already been copied, and a block map shows the save block address for each corresponding clone block address. When a new snapshot is created, the bit and block maps are converted to a hash index that is kept linked to the save volume of what had been the youngest snapshot. When other than the oldest snapshot file system is deleted, the respective save volume is retained as a hidden object until it becomes the oldest save volume.
摘要:
A data storage system receives sets of the revisions such that each set of revisions changes the dataset from one consistent state to another. Each set of revisions is processed in a write-selected phase followed by a read-selected phase. In the write-selected phase, the revisions in each set are written to a buffer and processed to produce a directory of the set of revisions. In the read-selected phase, the revisions are read from the buffer and integrated into the dataset. When one set of revisions is in the read-selected phase, the next set of revisions is in the write-selected phase. To permit uninterrupted read-only access to a consistent state of the dataset, the data storage system responds to a request for reading specified data on a priority basis by first accessing the directory of the read-selected revisions to determine whether the specified data are in the read-selected set of revisions, and if so, the specified data are read from the read-selected set of revisions, and if not, the specified data are read from the dataset. In a preferred implementation, the sets of revisions are alternately written to either a first buffer or a second buffer, and processing of each set of revisions is switched from the write-selected phase to the read-selected phase by switching between the two buffers.
摘要:
In an asynchronous remote copy system, a primary site keeps a list of data blocks for which changes have been made to a primary file system and transmitted to a secondary file system at a secondary site. When the primary site becomes inoperative, the secondary site begins read/write access to the secondary file system and keeps a snapshot copy of the restart point. Once the primary site becomes operative, the primary file system is restored to the state of the secondary file system at the restart point by using the list of data blocks for obtaining from the snapshot copy the data of the blocks for which changes had been made to the primary file system after the restart point. Then the primary file system is synchronized to the secondary file system, and read/write access is switched back from the secondary file system to the primary file system.
摘要:
In an asynchronous remote copy system, a primary site keeps a list of data blocks for which changes have been made to a primary file system and transmitted to a secondary file system at a secondary site. When the primary site becomes inoperative, the secondary site begins read/write access to the secondary file system and keeps a snapshot copy of the restart point. Once the primary site becomes operative, the primary file system is restored to the state of the secondary file system at the restart point by using the list of data blocks for obtaining from the snapshot copy the data of the blocks for which changes had been made to the primary file system after the restart point. Then the primary file system is synchronized to the secondary file system, and read/write access is switched back from the secondary file system to the primary file system.
摘要:
A snapshot copy facility stores snapshot copies of a production, file system. The snapshot copy facility receives a request for the difference between a specified older snapshot,copy and a specified younger snapshot copy, and responds by returning the difference between the older snapshot copy and the younger snapshot copy. In a preferred implementation, the snapshot copy facility has an index for each snapshot copy for indicating blocks of data in the production file system that have changed between the snapshot copy and a next snapshot copy of the production file system. The indices are scanned for a sequence of the snapshot copies to determine the blocks that have changed, and the snapshot copy facility returns the block numbers and data in the younger snapshot copy for the blocks that have changed.
摘要:
A method is used in managing global metadata caches in data storage systems. Space is allocated in a memory of a data storage system to a global metadata cache which is configured to store metadata objects for a plurality of different file systems responsive to file system access requests from the plurality of different file systems. A metadata object associated with a file of a file system of the plurality of different file systems is stored in the global metadata cache. The metadata object is accessed by a plurality of different versions of the file.
摘要:
A method is used in managing active-active mapped logical volumes. A mapped logical volume is created. The mapped logical volume includes first and second mapped logical volumes. Ownership of the first mapped logical volume resides with a first storage processor of a storage system and ownership of the second mapped logical volume resides with a second storage processor of the storage system. The mapped logical volume is managed. An access to the mapped logical volume is provided to the first and second storage processors.
摘要:
A system and method of operating a storage server in a data network for relocating one or more data blocks of a file, comprising creating a virtual block mapping pointer; and relocating one or more file system data.
摘要:
This invention is a system and a method for operating a storage server to provide read or write access to a data in a data network using a new architecture. The method of creating virtual block mapping pointer in response to a request by a client of the storage server to de-duplicate the file system data block or to allow compression of one or more file system data blocks into one or more physical data blocks. Further, the method relocates one or more file system data blocks from one part of the file system address space to another by using one or more virtual block mapping pointers that provides the mapping information for the one or more file system data blocks that are being relocated. The virtual block mapping pointer allows relocating of file system data blocks by same number of metadata operations regardless of number of files sharing the block that are being relocated and the state of those blocks (compressed or not).