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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2002
Clark Lubbers, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Susan Elkington, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Randy Hess, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Stephen J. Sicola, Palmer Lake, CO (US);
James Mccarty, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Anuja Korgaonkar, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Jason Leveille, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Clark Lubbers, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Susan Elkington, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Randy Hess, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Stephen J. Sicola, Palmer Lake, CO (US);
James McCarty, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Anuja Korgaonkar, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Jason Leveille, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for managing disk capacity allocated to a data log in a source data storage system during a merge process are disclosed. Data in the data log may be merged into corresponding data on a destination storage system connected to the source data storage system by at least one communication link. In one embodiment a method comprises maintaining a ratio of merge writes out of the data log to writes from a host computer into the data log within a desired range until the write process reaches a predetermined distance from the end of the data log, and quiescing writes from a host computer into the data log until the data log is fully written to the destination storage system.