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Patent No.:

US 5974424 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 1999

Filed:

Jul. 11, 1997

Parallel file system and method with a metadata node

Applicant:
Inventors:

Frank B Schmuck, Campbell, CA (US);

Robert Curran, West Hurley, NY (US);

James Christopher Wyllie, Monte Sereno, CA (US);

Boaz Shmueli, Haifa, IL;

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Attorneys:

Lane, Aitken & McCann

Augspurger; Lynn L.

Primary Examiner:

Thomas G Black

Assistant Examiner:

Sanjiv Shah

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
707201 ; 707200 ;
Abstract

A computer system having a shared disk file system running on multiple computers each having their own instance of an operating system and being coupled for parallel data disks. One of the computers serves as a metadata node and manages metadata for parallel read and write actions for a particular file. Metadata is transferred from and to this file from the other computers via this medadata node computer.

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