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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2019
Cohesity, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Mohit Aron, Saratoga, CA (US);
Ganesha Shanmuganathan, San Jose, CA (US);
Tarang Vaish, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Cohesity, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for maintaining file system consistency in a distributed system using version vectors is presented. A method generally includes comparing incarnation and transaction identifiers of a current version vector associated with a file with incarnation and transaction identifiers of a last completed version vector associated with the file. Upon determining that a current version vector reflects operations on the file that are either earlier than or the same as the identifiers in the last completed version vector, the node performing one or more file system operations on the file.