NAMESPACE REPLICATION PROGRAM, NAMESPACE REPLICATION DEVICE, AND NAMESPACE REPLICATION METHOD

• US 20090006500A1
• Filed: 09/05/2008
• Published: 01/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Shiozawa, Kensuke, Shinkai, Yoshitake
• Application Number:
  US12/204,883
• Publication Number:
  US 20090006500A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1443 Transmit or communication errors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1662 the resynchronized component or unit being a persistent storage device re-synchronization of failed mirror storage G06F11/2082; rebuild or reconstruction of parity RAID storage G06F11/1008
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2097 maintaining the standby controller/processing unit updated initialisation or re-synchronisation thereof G06F11/1658 and subgroups
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/185 Hierarchical storage management [HSM] systems, e.g. file migration or policies thereof details of archiving G06F16/11

Abstract

A namespace replication database update step that acquires events relating to namespace update from a FS control server 112 for controlling a primary storage 133 and updates, based on the events, a namespace replication DB 132 created based upon inode information and link information in the primary storage 133; and a namespace replication database correction step that acquires inode information having ctime after a predetermined time and link information corresponding to the inode information from the FS control server 112, and corrects the namespace replication DB 132 if events which have not been reflected on the namespace replication DB 132 are lost, are caused to be performed by the computer

Claims

1. A namespace replication program causing a computer to replicate a namespace on a storage device, the program causing the computer to execute:

a namespace replication database update step that acquires namespace update information, which is information relating to updating the namespace, from a file system controller for controlling the storage device and updates, based on the namespace update information, a namespace replication database, which is a database created based upon file identification information and link information in the storage device; and

a namespace replication database correction step that acquires unupdated file identification information, which is file identification information updated after a predetermined time, and unupdated link information, which is link information corresponding to the unupdated file identification information, from the file system controller, and corrects the namespace replication database based upon the unupdated file identification information and the unupdated link information if the namespace update information which has not been reflected on the namespace replication database by the namespace replication database update step is lost.

2. The namespace replication program according to claim 1, wherein

the namespace update information contains a namespace update content, which is an updated namespace content, and a namespace update time, which is an update time for the namespace, and

among the namespace update times contained in the namespace update information which has been reflected on the namespace replication database by the namespace replication database update step, the namespace replication database correction step sets the latest one as the predetermined time.

3. The namespace replication program according to claim 1, wherein

the namespace replication database correction step sets link information contained in a directory file among files shown by the unupdated file identification information as the unupdated link information.

4. The namespace replication program according to claim 1, wherein

the namespace replication database information correction step extracts and acquires the unupdated file identification information and the unupdated link information by notifying the file system controller of the predetermined time.

5. The namespace replication program according to claim 1, wherein

the namespace replication database information correction step acquires namespace update information which has not been reflected on the namespace replication database by the namespace replication database update step before so completing the correction of the namespace replication database, and updates the namespace replication database based upon the acquired namespace update information if the namespace update information has no relationship to the unupdated file identification information.

6. The namespace replication program according to claim 1, wherein

one of the link information contains inode information for one directory file as well as inode information for a child file contained in the directory file and name information for a child file contained in the directory file, and

the namespace replication database has an entry for each of the link information.

7. The namespace replication program according to claim 1, wherein

the file identification information is inode information, and

the link information contains an inode number for one directory file and an inode number for a child file contained in the directory file.

8. The namespace replication program according to claim 2, wherein

the namespace replication database information correction step acquires namespace update information which has not been reflected on the namespace replication database by the namespace replication database update step before completing the correction of the namespace replication database, and corrects the namespace replication database based upon the newer one of the namespace update information and the unupdated file identification information by comparing the namespace change time of the namespace update information with the update time of the upupdated file identification information having some relationship to the namespace update information if the namespace update information has any relationship to the unupdated file identification information.

9. The namespace replication program according to claim 1, wherein the namespace update information is sent collectively in each predetermined period of time by the file system controller and

the namespace replication database information update step updates the namespace replication database based on the namespace update information each time the namespace replication database information update step acquires the namespace update information.

10. A namespace replication device for replicating a namespace on a storage device, comprising:

a namespace replication database update section that acquires namespace update information, which is information relating to updating the namespace, from a file system controller for controlling the storage device and updates, based on the namespace update information, a namespace replication database, which is a database created based upon file identification information and link information in the storage device; and

a namespace replication database correction section that acquires unupdated file identification information, which is file identification information updated after a predetermined time, and unupdated link information, which is link information corresponding to the unupdated file identification information, from the file system controller, and corrects the namespace replication database based upon the unupdated file identification information and the unupdated link information if the namespace update information which has not been reflected on the namespace replication database by the namespace replication database update section is lost.

11. The namespace replication device according to claim 10, wherein

the namespace update information contains a namespace update content which is an updated namespace content, and a namespace update time, which is an update time for the namespace, and

among the namespace update times contained in the namespace update information which has been reflected on the namespace replication database by the namespace replication database update section, the namespace replication database correction section sets the latest one as the predetermined time.

12. A namespace replication method for replicating a namespace on a storage device, comprising:

a namespace replication database update step that acquires namespace update information, which is information relating to updating the namespace, from a file system controller for controlling the storage device in the namespace replication device for managing a namespace replication database, which is a database created based upon file identification information and link information of the storage device, and updates the namespace replication database based upon the namespace update information; and

a namespace replication database correction step that acquires unupdated file identification information, which is file identification information updated after a predetermined time, and unupdated link information, which is link information corresponding to the unupdated file identification information, from the file system controller in the namespace replication device and corrects the namespace replication database based upon the unupdated file identification information and the unupdated link information if the namespace update information which has not been reflected on the namespace replication database by the namespace replication database update step is lost.

13. The namespace replication method according to claim 12, wherein

the namespace update information contains a namespace update content, which is an updated namespace content, and a namespace update time, which is an update time for the namespace, and

among the namespace update times contained in the namespace update information which has been reflected on the namespace replication database by the namespace replication database update step, the namespace replication database correction step sets the latest one as the predetermined time.

14. The namespace replication method according to claim 12, wherein

the namespace replication database correction step sets link information contained in a directory file among files shown by the unupdated file identification information as the unupdated link information.

15. The namespace replication method according to claim 12, wherein

the namespace replication database information correction step acquires the unupdated file identification information in the namespace replication device by notifying the file system controller of the predetermined time in the namespace replication device, enumerating file identification information updated after the predetermined time in the file system controller, and sending the file identification information as unupdated file identification information to the namespace replication device.

16. The namespace replication method according to claim 12, wherein

the namespace replication database information correction step acquires namespace update information which has not been reflected on the namespace replication database by the namespace replication database update step before completing the correction of the namespace replication database in the namespace replication device, and updates the namespace replication database based upon the acquired namespace update information if the namespace update information has no relationship to the unupdated file identification information.

17. The namespace replication method according to claim 12, wherein

one of the link information contains inode information for one directory file as well as inode information for a child file contained in the directory file and name information for a child file contained in the directory file, and

the namespace replication database has an entry for each of the link information.

18. The namespace replication method according to claim 12, wherein

the file identification information is inode information, and

the link information contains an inode number for one directory file and an inode number for a child file contained in the directory file.

19. The namespace replication method according to claim 13, wherein

the namespace replication database information correction step acquires namespace update information which has not been reflected on the namespace replication database by the namespace replication database update step before completing the correction of the namespace replication database in the namespace replication device, and corrects the namespace replication database based upon the newer one of the namespace update information and the unupdated file identification information by comparing the namespace change time of the namespace update information with the update time of the unupdated file identification information having some relationship to the namespace update information if the namespace update information has any relationship to the unupdated file identification information.

20. The namespace replication method according to claim 12, wherein

the namespace replication database information update step records database maintenance information instructing the maintenance of the namespace replication database in the storage device in case of an orderly termination in the file system controller and determines that the namespace update information which has not been reflected on the namespace replication database by the namespace replication database update step is lost when the database maintenance information is not found in the storage device at the time of starting the file system controller, causing the namespace replication device to perform the namespace replication database correction step.