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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2010
Karan Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);
Roger L Haskin, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Prasenjit Sarkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Dinesh K. Subhraveti, Milpitas, CA (US);
Karan Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);
Roger L Haskin, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Prasenjit Sarkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Dinesh K. Subhraveti, Milpitas, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention relate to data replication and block allocation in a file system to support write transactions. Regions in a cluster file system are defined to support a block allocation. Blocks in the defined regions are allocated to support the data replication. A pipeline manager is provided to schedule population of the blocks in the allocated region(s) based upon network characteristics.