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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2009
Filed:
May. 28, 2004
Applicant:
Ellard T. Roush, Burlingame, CA (US);
Inventor:
Ellard T. Roush, Burlingame, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A cluster file system including a file server primary configured to satisfy a plurality of file operation requests, a file server secondary configured to be promoted to the file server primary in the event of a failure of a node on which the file server primary is located, a plurality of file agents configured to process the plurality of file operation requests on the node, and a reference counting subsystem configured to track an object reference of the plurality of file agents.