Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and method for supporting verification of data integrity in a disk storage system. SOLUTION: Data, and atomicity metadata (AMD) and validity metadata (VMD) generated in association with the data are stored in a data chunk for providing logical representation of one or more sectors on a disk drive constituting a storage system. In parallel, one or more copies of the validity metadata are stored in a low latency nonvolatile storage device (LLNVS), and compared when accessed to verify data integrity. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for managing the copying of writes from primary storages to secondary storages across different networks. Information is maintained on a first group of at least one primary storage, at least one primary device managing Input/Output (I/O) access to the at least one primary storage, and at least one corresponding secondary storage to which writes to the at least one primary storage are copied and a second group of at least one primary storage, at least one primary device managing Input/Output (I/O) access to the at least one primary storage, and at least one corresponding secondary storage to which writes to the at least one primary storage are copied. A failure notification is received from one of the primary devices in the first or second group of a failure to copy a write from the primary device to the secondary device. A freeze command is issued over a first network, using a first network protocol, to the at least one primary device in the first group to stop copying writes to the corresponding at least one secondary device. A freeze command is issued over a second network, using a second network protocol, to the at least one primary device in the second group to stop copying writes to the corresponding at least one secondary device.