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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2015
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Sherry Hongru Xu, Shanghai, CN;
Brian Tianfang Xiong, Shanghai, CN;
Yuanyang Wu, Shanghai, CN;
Ning Xu, Shanghai, CN;
Yuan Luo, Shanghai, CN;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a computer program products and apparatus for controlling sharing of a resource among a plurality of nodes, wherein in response to a service using the resource to be initiated at an object node of the plurality of nodes, locking, at the object node, an object file that is associated with use of the resource; in response to successful locking of the object file, determining, at the object node, whether other files associated with the use of the resource at other nodes of the plurality of nodes have been locked; and in response to determining that the other files are not locked, using, at the object node, the resource to initiate the service.