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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Harsha Hegde, Hawthorn Woods, IL (US);
Wesley B. Leggette, Chicago, IL (US);
Manish Motwani, Chicago, IL (US);
Jason K. Resch, Chicago, IL (US);
Daniel J. Scholl, Chicago, IL (US);
Rohan P. Shah, Chicago, IL (US);
Yogesh R. Vedpathak, Chicago, IL (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for replicating containers in object storage using intents are disclosed. A DS processing unit, upon reception of a write request may determine the location of replicated instances for the container. DS processing unit can then generate an intent for each fork, to indicate a specific write request received. The DS processing unit may save or persist intent objects within one of the containers, or in a dispersed data structure. A DS unit or DS processing unit may then check for intents whose operation has not been completed, and when resources to perform the operation are available, perform the operation specified in the intent. DS processing unit can remove a pending intent once the job or operation is complete. A clean-up agent could run periodically to complete unfinished jobs that are pending within DS processing unit or DS unit due to containers not being available for whatever reason.