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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Robert Thompson, Austin, TX (US);
Kenneth Anderson, Leander, TX (US);
Yanhua Yang, Williamson, TX (US);
Rama Mothey Tenjarla, Austin, TX (US);
Roy Glenn Spencer, Williamson, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Within metadata of a mounted file system with a file system transaction logging capability, a set of inodes is identified, each inode in the set of inodes comprising a data structure identifying a file system storage location of a portion of a file stored in the file system. A set of unused inodes is excluded from the set of inodes. A set of changing inodes is excluded from the set of inodes, each inode in the set of changing inodes comprising a flag indicating an in-progress write operation. A consistency check is performed on the metadata of the file system excluding the set of unused inodes and the set of changing inodes, the consistency check attempting to identify an inconsistency in the metadata. Responsive to the consistency check identifying an inconsistency in the metadata, the file system is remediated.