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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Venkat K. Chandra, Andover, MA (US);
Prasad G. Parulekar, Wayland, MA (US);
Sunil Sarin, Newton, MA (US);
Krishnan Seetharaman, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
David L. Shepard, Sterling, MA (US);
Lawrence Stabile, Cambridge, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for replication control using eventually consistent meta-data. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for replication control using eventually consistent meta-data is provided. The method includes replicating data in a replication data processing system of nodes coupled to one another over a computer communications network. The method also includes replicating meta-data representing the state of the replication data processing system into a data structure of eventually consistent meta-data. Finally, the method includes managing the replication of the data according to the replicated meta-data.