Oracle International Corporation

International Business Machines Corporation

Agere Systems Inc.

William Eugene Baker

Piyush Shivam

Jeffrey Anderson Smith

Bret Ronald Olszewski

David Blair Whitworth

Mauricio Calle

James Thomas Kirk

Betty Ann McDaniel

Richard S Brown

According to some embodiments of the invention, systems and methods are provided for capturing and storing state information corresponding to various states of the network file system (NFS) for use in recovery during a system failure. In various aspects, the disclosed systems and methods may automatically collect and synchronously write state changes made to the NFS to non-volatile storage. In the event of an NFS system failure or crash (e.g., a failure of the NFS server), the state information corresponding to the NFS system may be automatically imported from the non-volatile storage, thereby enabling NFS services to be resumed immediately and transparently.

Systems and methods for continuously available network file system (NFS) state data

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.

Method and apparatus for restoring an instance of a storage server

Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and method for simulating a storage cluster testing system. The method and system includes a processor configured to instructions stored on a memory to produce a simulation interface. The simulation interface includes an abstraction layer that receives verbs from a test driver and passes the verbs to one of two or more plugins. The plugins may include a synthetic plugin configured to translate the verbs into one or more command and send commands to a simulated storage appliance that is a computing device with relatively lower performance than an actual storage appliance. The simulated storage appliance may act in place of two storage appliances clustered to form a storage cluster. The simulated storage appliance forms a simulated storage cluster. The simulated storage cluster simulates the performance of the verb on by the storage cluster.

Method and apparatus for simulated failover testing

In general, the invention relates to a method for migrating a source file system residing on a source server to a destination server. The method includes sending a first snapshot of the source file system from the source server to the destination server and creating, using the first snapshot, a migrated file system on the destination server. The method further includes sequentially sending, to the destination server, a set of snapshot deltas including modifications to the source file system, updating the migrated file system using the set of snapshot deltas, determining that a freeze threshold is exceeded, freezing the source file system, sending a final snapshot delta from the source server to the destination server, updating the migrated file system using the final snapshot delta, creating a file system husk referencing the migrated file system, and thawing the source file system and the migrated file system.

Live file system migration

A network processor or other type of processor includes classification circuitry and memory circuitry coupled to the classification circuitry. The memory circuitry is configured to store at least a portion of at least a given one of a number of packets to be processed by the classification circuitry. The classification circuitry implements a non-sequential packet classification process for at least a subset of the packets including the given packet. For example, in an embodiment in which the given packet is generated in accordance with multiple embedded protocols, the non-sequential packet classification process allows the processor to return from a given point within the packet, at which a final one of the protocols is identified, to a beginning of the packet, through the use of a 'skip to beginning' instruction. The skip to beginning instruction may be configured to allow the processor to skip back to a particular bit, e.g., a first bit, of the given packet at a time during the classification process after which the particular bit has been processed, such that multiple passes of the classification process can be performed on the given packet. The processor may be configured as a network processor integrated circuit to provide an interface between a network from which the packet is received and a switch fabric in a router or switch.

Processor with multiple-pass non-sequential packet classification feature

Initially, data is copied from a disk to a page frame and then to a read buffer, for instance. Next, a check is made to determine whether the percent of real memory occupied by file pages is less than a preset maximum volume. If so, no space is allocated for additional file page and no page frames are returned to the free list. If not, the VMM selects the best candidate file pages in real memory and returns them to the free list. Ideal candidates are a thread's memory pages, from a thread doing sequential I/O the file system. In so doing, the page frames are added to the free list as soon as the I/O is complete.

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William Eugene Baker