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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090094243 | METHOD FOR MANAGING LOCK RESOURCES IN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM - A method and a distributed locking system for the management of lock resources in a distributed files system having several lock managers, each managing lock resources in its respective domain. Each lock manager maintains a registry lock file that comprises of a list of all locked files and a list of lock requests. The registry lock files of all lock managers in the distributed locking system are saved in a central database. Furthermore, the system enables concurrent locking operations of different file sharing protocols on the same file system resources. | 04-09-2009 |
20090043977 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING A SNAPSHOT IN A DISTRIBUTED SHARED FILE SYSTEM - A method for performing a snapshot in a distributed shared file system (DSFS) is provided. The method includes synchronizing a snapshot operation among a plurality of domains of the DSFS; writing pending write requests to a memory to suspend write operations for the domains of the DSFS; and after the writing the pending write requests, generating a snapshot file comprising data items representing a current state of the DSFS. | 02-12-2009 |