Reading and writing during cluster growth phase
US8447833B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 6, 2012 |
| Grant date | May 21, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 6, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2211/104
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A client device configured to write to both a growth server and a live server replica that the growth server is replacing during a growth phase is described herein. The client device first determines the growth server designated to replace a corresponding live server replica of a set of server replicas associated with a storage index. The client device then transmits a write request associated with the storage index to the set of server replicas and to the growth server. The client device may perform the determining based on storage assignment mappings. The storage assignment mappings are provided to the client device by a metadata server while the growth server retrieves data associated with the storage index from the live server replica.
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