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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2008
Applicant:
Joydeep Sen Sarma, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
Joydeep Sen Sarma, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and an apparatus to perform fast log replay have been disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes preloading a buffer with data based on a catalog in response to a failure of a storage server and replaying a log as the buffer is being preloaded, wherein replaying the log comprises re-executing a set of modifying operations previously logged in a local non-volatile storage device in the storage server using the data preloaded.