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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2006
William Thomas Newport, Rochester, MN (US);
Kevin William Sutter, Rochester, MN (US);
William Thomas Newport, Rochester, MN (US);
Kevin William Sutter, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, program product and method monitor the state of a cache during a cache preload operation in a clustered computer system such that the monitored state can be used after a failover to potentially avoid the need to restart the cache preload operation from the beginning. In particular, by monitoring the state of the cache during a cache preload operation, any data that has been preloaded into a cache prior to a failure may be retained after a failover occurs, thus enabling the cache preload operation to continue from the point at which it was interrupted as a result of the failure.