System and method for customized I/O fencing for preventing data corruption in computer system clusters

Systems, methods, apparatus and software can implement a flexible I/O fence mechanism framework allowing clustered computer systems to conveniently use one or more I/O fencing techniques. Various different fencing techniques can be used, and fencing mechanism can be customized.

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Main Authors Chen, Grace, Schatz, Bob, Divatia, Shardul
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 15.09.2009
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Summary:Systems, methods, apparatus and software can implement a flexible I/O fence mechanism framework allowing clustered computer systems to conveniently use one or more I/O fencing techniques. Various different fencing techniques can be used, and fencing mechanism can be customized.