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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2007
Applicant:
Kenneth Beck, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Inventor:
Kenneth Beck, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Assignee:
Silicon Graphics International, Fremont, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/177 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A cluster of computer system nodes share direct read/write access to storage devices via a storage area network using a cluster filesystem. Version information about subsystems is acquired by a leader node when forming a cluster membership and distributed to all nodes in the cluster to enable proper messaging during operation.