IP Library Granted Patent US 10,169,155
Granted Patent B2
US 10,169,155 · App. 15/290,302 · Granted Jan 1, 2019

System and method for synchronization in a cluster environment

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Patent No.
US 10,169,155
App. No.
15/290,302
Granted
Jan 1, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method, computer program product, and computer system for performing, via a first computing device, a copy sweep operation to a first range of data on a source storage device. It may be determined that the copy sweep operation has failed. A message may be sent to a second computing device to suspend I/O operations to the first range of data. The copy sweep operation may be retried based upon, at least in part, determining that the copy sweep operation has failed, wherein the copy sweep operation may be retried without the first computing device receiving acknowledgement that the second computing device is suspending the I/O operations to the first range of data.

Claims (36)

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

performing, via a first computing device, a copy sweep operation to a first range of data on a source storage device;

determining that the copy sweep operation has failed;

sending a message to a second computing device to suspend I/O operations to the first range of data; and

retrying the copy sweep operation based upon, at least in part, determining that the copy sweep operation has failed, wherein the copy sweep operation is retried without the first computing device receiving acknowledgement that the I/O operations to the first range of data are suspended by the second computing device.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising sending a message to resume I/O operations to the first range of data based upon, at least in part, success of the copy sweep operation to the first range of data as a result of retrying the copy sweep operation.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein determining that the copy sweep operation has failed includes determining that data read from the first range of data at a first time is different than data read from the first range of data at a second time.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 wherein sending the message to suspend I/O operations to the first range of data is based upon, at least in part, determining that the data read from the first range of data on the source storage device at the first time is different than the data read from the first range of data at the second time.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the message sent to suspend I/O operations to the first range of data includes at least one of a start value of the first range of data, an end value of the first range of data, and a predetermined time period during which to suspend I/O operations to the first range of data.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 further comprising:

determining that the copy sweep operation to the first range of data is not completed after the predetermined time period; and

sending a message to resume I/O operations to the first range of data based upon, at least in part, determining that the copy sweep operation to the first range of data is not completed after the predetermined time period.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 further comprising receiving I/O operations to the first range of data, wherein the I/O operations are received after the predetermined time period without receiving a message to resume I/O operations to the first range of data.

8. A computer program product residing on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed across one or more processors, cause at least a portion of the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

performing, via a first computing device, a copy sweep operation to a first range of data on a source storage device;

determining that the copy sweep operation has failed;

sending a message to a second computing device to suspend I/O operations to the first range of data; and

retrying the copy sweep operation based upon, at least in part, determining that the copy sweep operation has failed, wherein the copy sweep operation is retried without the first computing device receiving acknowledgement that the I/O operations to the first range of data are suspended by the second computing device.

9. The computer program product of claim 8 further comprising sending a message to resume I/O operations to the first range of data based upon, at least in part, success of the copy sweep operation to the first range of data as a result of retrying the copy sweep operation.

10. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein determining that the copy sweep operation has failed includes determining that data read from the first range of data at a first time is different than data read from the first range of data at a second time.

11. The computer program product of claim 10 wherein sending the message to suspend I/O operations to the first range of data is based upon, at least in part, determining that the data read from the first range of data on the source storage device at the first time is different than the data read from the first range of data at the second time.

12. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein the message sent to suspend I/O operations to the first range of data includes at least one of a start value of the first range of data, an end value of the first range of data, and a predetermined time period during which to suspend I/O operations to the first range of data.

13. The computer program product of claim 12 further comprising:

determining that the copy sweep operation to the first range of data is not completed after the predetermined time period; and

sending a message to resume I/O operations to the first range of data based upon, at least in part, determining that the copy sweep operation to the first range of data is not completed after the predetermined time period.

14. The computer program product of claim 12 further comprising receiving I/O operations to the first range of data, wherein the I/O operations are received after the predetermined time period without receiving a message to resume I/O operations to the first range of data.

15. A computing system including one or more processors and one or more memories configured to perform operations comprising:

performing, via a first computing device, a copy sweep operation to a first range of data on a source storage device;

determining that the copy sweep operation has failed;

sending a message to a second computing device to suspend I/O operations to the first range of data; and

retrying the copy sweep operation based upon, at least in part, determining that the copy sweep operation has failed, wherein the copy sweep operation is retried without the first computing device receiving acknowledgement that the second computing device is suspending the I/O operations to the first range of data.

16. The computing system of claim 15 further comprising sending a message to the second computing device to resume I/O operations to the first range of data based upon, at least in part, success of the copy sweep operation to the first range of data as a result of retrying the copy sweep operation.

17. The computing system of claim 15 wherein determining that the copy sweep operation has failed includes determining that data read from the first range of data on the source storage device at a first time is different than data read from the first range of data from the source storage device at a second time.

18. The computing system of claim 17 wherein sending the message to the second computing device to suspend I/O operations to the first range of data is based upon, at least in part, determining that the data read from the first range of data on the source storage device at the first time is different than the data read from the first range of data read on the source storage device at the second time.

19. The computing system of claim 15 wherein the message sent to the second computing device to suspend I/O operations to the first range of data includes at least one of a start value of the first range of data, an end value of the first range of data, and a predetermined time period during which the second computing device is to suspend I/O operations to the first range of data.

20. The computing system of claim 19 further comprising receiving I/O operations from the second computing device to the first range of data, wherein the I/O operations are received from the second computing device without the second computing device receiving a message to resume I/O operations to the first range of data.

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