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Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2023

Filed:

Jul. 09, 2021
Applicant:

Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;

Inventor:

Jun Maeda, Kawasaki, JP;

Assignee:

FUJITSU LIMITED, Kawasaki, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01);
Abstract

A storage device communicably coupled to a host device and another storage device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: write, in a case where an area release command of a transaction volume is issued from the host device while data backup processing is performed with the another storage device using a generation-managed transmission buffer, the area release command in a first generation of the transmission buffer; and switch, in a case where a range of data write processing requested by the host device overlaps a range specified by the area release command written in the first generation, a generation of the transmission buffer from the first generation to a second generation.


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