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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2022
Netapp, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Robin Mahony, Vancouver, CA;
Oliver Seiler, Vancouver, CA;
Blake Edwards, Vancouver, CA;
Vladimir Avram, Vancouver, CA;
Gregory Kent, Vancouver, CA;
Chong Zhao, Vancouver, CA;
NETAPP, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A distributed storage system may synchronously apply an Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) policy to objects at ingest. In one embodiment of synchronous ILM, three options are available for a user: balanced, strict, and dual commit. Dual commit refers to the behavior where one will always create two replicated copies in the same site and then apply ILM asynchronously. Strict refers to the behavior where the storage system attempts to apply the ILM policy synchronously on ingest, and if the storage system cannot the ingest of the object will fail. This ensures that the storage system can guarantee that ILM has been applied to recently ingested objects. Balanced refers to the behavior where the storage system attempts to apply ILM synchronously, but if the storage system cannot the storage system may fall-back to dual-commit.