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Patent No.:

US 10983702 B1

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Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Joshua J. Crawford, Tucson, AZ (US);

Paul A. Jennas, II, Tucson, AZ (US);

Jason L. Peipelman, Austin, TX (US);

Matthew J. Ward, Vail, AZ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G11B 5/008 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0613 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0629 (2013.01); G06F 3/0649 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 3/0685 (2013.01); G11B 5/00813 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one embodiment, a computer program product for read-once point-in-time copy includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, and the program instructions are executable by a storage system manager to cause the storage system manager to perform a method comprising: detecting a read access to one or more data tracks of a target data storage module; setting a value of one or more bits in response to detecting the read access to the one or more data tracks, each of the one or more bits being associated with one of the one or more data tracks. The value of the one or more bits is set to a value configured to prevent a copy-on-write operation being applied to the one or more data tracks to which the read access was detected.


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