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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2005
Applicants:
Robert Wyckoff Hyer, Jr., Mars, PA (US);
Richard P. Jernigan, Iv, Ambridge, PA (US);
Inventors:
Robert Wyckoff Hyer, Jr., Mars, PA (US);
Richard P. Jernigan, IV, Ambridge, PA (US);
Assignee:
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 17/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method revokes soft locks in a distributed system. A data volume of the distributed system determines that one or more soft locks need to be revoked in order for an operation to be processed. The data volume transmits a request to revoke the soft locks to a meta-data volume that stores a canonical copy of meta-data.