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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 17, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kenneth Hubacher, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/200 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/200 ;
Abstract
A file request is received by the operating system, and the appropriate IFS driver for the file is called. The IFS driver remaps the drive path based on a drive location list contained in a file redirection table in the IFS driver. Drive or server redundancy is ensured by simultaneously broadcasting writes to each drive on the drive location list. Redundancy is ensured for read operations by sequentially traversing the drive location list in the event of a non-responsive drive or server.