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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025

Filed:

Mar. 12, 2024
Applicant:

Netapp, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Clinton Douglas Knight, Apex, NC (US);

Joseph Eli Webster, Wichita, KS (US);

Christopher Michael Reeder, Everett, WA (US);

Assignee:

NetApp, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/16 (2006.01); G06F 11/18 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01); H04L 65/00 (2022.01); H04L 67/00 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/181 (2013.01); G06F 11/16 (2013.01); G06F 11/1666 (2013.01); G06F 11/20 (2013.01); G06F 11/2017 (2013.01); H04L 65/00 (2013.01); H04L 67/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

The technology disclosed herein enables a storage orchestrator controller to prevent residual data from being written to a storage volume when a node fails non-gracefully. In a particular example, a method includes determining a health status of nodes in the cluster and, in response to determining a node in the cluster failed, marking the node as dirty. After marking the node as dirty and in response to determining the node is ready, the method includes directing the node to erase data in one or more write buffers at the node. The one of more write buffers buffer data for writing to one or more storage volumes when the one or more storage volumes are mounted by the node. After the one or more write buffers are erased, the method includes marking the node as clean.


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