System and method for determining target failback and target priority for a distributed file system

A system and method for organizing and sorting targets received in a referral response and for realizing a target fail-back and a target priority policy in a distributed file system is provided. In one embodiment, a sorting method includes receiving a referral response in the form of a list of targe...

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Main Authors LOVINGER, DANIEL E, GUPTA, MUKUL, BOZEMAN, PATRICK E, COLVILLE, SCOTT, WICKREMATILLAKE, SUPRIYA, PUDIPEDDI, RAVISANKAR, SHANKAR, RAMESH
Format Patent
LanguageChinese
English
Published 16.04.2006
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:A system and method for organizing and sorting targets received in a referral response and for realizing a target fail-back and a target priority policy in a distributed file system is provided. In one embodiment, a sorting method includes receiving a referral response in the form of a list of targets that are sorted into bounded sets. Having a sorted referral response in bounded sets provides a basis for implementing a target fail-back and a target priority policy. The computer system may select a target from a sorted list of targets sorted according to site-cost and/or target priority. Then, the computer system may determine if the set target is associated with a more preferred target when compared to all available targets in the sorted list and if not, switch back to a more preferred target.
Bibliography:Application Number: TW200594128639