System and method for recovering a logical volume during failover or reboot of a file server in a data storage environment
US7882386B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 21, 2008 |
| Grant date | Feb 1, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 2, 2029 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/1008
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
This invention is a system and a method for recovering and repairing a logical volume in a data storage environment using a new architecture. The method of recovering a logical volume enables mounting of a file system by instantiating only a single slice under the sparse volume and instantiating rest of the slices provisioned under the sparse volume in background by a asynchronous recovery process or on-demand by the clients of the file system issuing an I/O on the slice volume. The method of repairing a logical volume provides the ability to regenerate the metadata required to reconstruct the corrupted volume.
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