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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2017
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method and a system for detecting an occurrence of an auto-commit operation applied to files managed by a file server compliant with write-once-read-many (WORM) rules. The method includes: allocating a plurality of non-overlapping predefined time ranges starting from a newest-changed-files time range and ending at an oldest-changed-files time range, wherein the time ranges add up to an auto-commit period associated with the auto-commit operation; repeatedly updating a count of files whose file-change-time is associated respectively with one of the allocated time ranges, wherein the updating is carried out every time the predefined time range lapses; and detecting, every time the time range lapses, an occurrence of an auto-commit operation applied to at least one of the files stored on the volume within a duration of the time range since the updating, whenever the count of the files associated with the oldest-changed-files time range is non-zero.