Symantec Corporation

Veritas Technologies LLC

Anurag Vora

Brad Boyer

Freddy James

Madhav Buddhi

Ajay Salpekar

The disclosed computer-implemented method for efficiently moving data within a filesystem may include (1) partitioning, on a storage device, physical address space of a filesystem into a plurality of logical partitions, (2) allocating, on the storage device, at least one container of data block identifiers representing data blocks for each of the logical partitions, (3) maintaining, on the storage device, a partition map of values identifying the container of data block identifiers, the logical partitions, and at least one offset associated with each of the logical partitions, (4) sending, on the storage device, the data blocks from a source logical partition within the logical partitions to a target logical partition within the logical partitions, and (5) updating, on the storage device, the partition map based on the data blocks sent from the source logical partition to the target logical partition. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for efficiently moving data within a filesystem

An InfiniBand managed storage environment is made up of processor nodes containing HCAs and managed storage devices containing TCAs and exposing a plurality of LUNs and volumes. For each InfiniBand channel between a specific HCA and a specific TCA, the paths between the HCA and any LUN or volume exposed by the TCA are grouped into a set. Occurrence of failures on specific paths of specific sets on specific channels are determined, for example by registering for callbacks or polling for occurrence of events which adversely affect communication between endpoints. Also, I/O operations executed by processor nodes are tracked and failures thereof are detected. When the occurrence of a failure on a specific path of a set is determined, all I/O operations on all paths of the set are proactively rerouted to a separate set on a separate channel that connects the same processor node and storage device.

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