Method and apparatus for restoring an instance of a storage server
US9361192B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 19, 2012 |
| Grant date | Jun 7, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 13, 2034 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2201/84
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and/or method for gracelessly rebooting a storage appliance. The method and system includes a storage appliance in association with an event that will result in the loss of a state table from volatile memory that halts changes to at least one state table of the storage appliance. The state tables describe a plurality of file system states of one or more clients connected to the first storage appliance. The state information is written to a persistent memory of the storage appliance. The state table may then be repopulated using the state table information stored in persistent memory.
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