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Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015

Filed:

May. 31, 2012
Applicants:

Juan R. Loaiza, Woodside, CA (US);

Kothanda Umamageswaran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Boris Erlikhman, Mountain View, CA (US);

David Friedman, New York, NY (US);

Jia Shi, Burlingame, CA (US);

Zuoyu Tao, Belmont, CA (US);

Alex Tsukerman, Foster City, CA (US);

Inventors:

Juan R. Loaiza, Woodside, CA (US);

Kothanda Umamageswaran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Boris Erlikhman, Mountain View, CA (US);

David Friedman, New York, NY (US);

Jia Shi, Burlingame, CA (US);

Zuoyu Tao, Belmont, CA (US);

Alex Tsukerman, Foster City, CA (US);

Assignee:

ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Redwood Shores, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/2082 (2013.01); G06F 3/0629 (2013.01); G06F 12/00 (2013.01); G06F 12/08 (2013.01); G06F 12/0802 (2013.01);
Abstract

Dirty data in a storage device is made current through rapid re-silvering, which uses a mirrored and up-to-date version of the dirty data from another storage device to recover the data. Because under rapid re-silvering cache metadata in volatile memory survives the failure of the cache, the cache metadata is used to determine which subset of data from the other storage device needs to be copied to the storage device being re-silvered. During re-silvering, cache metadata is used to determine which I/O requests from clients are requests for data that is not stale.


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