Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Shifting a defrag operation in a mirrored system
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Application No.: US15284703Application Date: 2016-10-04
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Publication No.: US09886361B2Publication Date: 2018-02-06
- Inventor: Nikhil Khandelwal , Gregory E. McBride , David C. Reed , Richard A. Welp
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent William H. Hartwell
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06 ; G06F11/20

Abstract:
A method for defragmenting volumes in a mirrored system. The method includes determining that a defragmentation process has been performed on a second server. The method further includes storing a before and after mapping of a second set of tracks, wherein the before and after mapping includes information identifying at least one track of the second set of tracks and a corresponding first location of the respective track before the performing of the defragmentation process and a second location of the respective track after the performing of the defragmentation process and sending an indication to a first server to relocate at least one track of a first set of tracks on the first server from a first location on the first server to a second location on the first server according to the stored before and after mapping of the corresponding second set of tracks on the second server.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170024296A1 SHIFTING A DEFRAG OPERATION IN A MIRRORED SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2017-01-26
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