CLUSTER NODE CONTROL APPARATUS OF FILE SERVER

• US 20090319661A1
• Filed: 03/31/2009
• Published: 12/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Shiozawa, Kensuke, Shinkai, Yoshitake
• Application Number:
  US12/415,387
• Publication Number:
  US 20090319661A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/225
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/12 Transmitting and receiving encryption devices synchronised or initially set up in a particular manner
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3247 involving digital signatures

Abstract

When a network file service is transferred from a transfer source node to a transfer target node, a file service state utilized by a client in the transfer source node is transferred to the transfer target node. Then, after the file service state is transferred to the transfer target node, a file service request (I/O request) reached from the client to the transfer source node is transmitted to the transfer target node.

Claims

1. A computer readable recording medium storing a cluster node control program of a file server causing a computer to execute a process comprising:

transferring a file service state utilized by a client in a transfer source node, to a transfer target node, when an instruction to transfer a network file service between nodes of a clustering system is received; and

transmitting a file service request reached from the client to the transfer source node, to the transfer target node, after the file service state is transferred to the transfer target node.

2. A computer readable recording medium storing a cluster node control program of a file server causing a computer to execute a process according to claim 1,

wherein the transferring the file service state to the transfer target node extracts control data associated with the file service state utilized by the client from a control cache file provided in the transfer source node, to transfer the extracted control data together with the file service state to the transfer target node.

3. A computer readable recording medium storing a cluster node control program of a file server causing a computer to execute a process according to claim 1, further comprising

freezing of raw intermediate state of the file service in the transfer source node, when the instruction to transfer the network file service is received, and also, keeping a processing to the file service request on hold until the transfer of the file service is completed in the transfer target node.

4. A computer readable recording medium storing a cluster node control program of a file server causing a computer to execute a process according to claim 1, further comprising

processing a login authentication request from the client in substitutive in the transfer source node, and transmitting the authentication result to the transfer target node.

5. A computer readable recording medium storing a cluster node control program of a file server causing a computer to execute a process according to claim 4,

wherein the authentication result to the login authentication request is held in the transfer source node until a logoff request is completed.

6. A computer readable recording medium storing a cluster control program of a file server causing a computer to execute a process according to claim 1, further comprising

providing the cluster node as a domain member node of a directory service system, and establishing a communicative session between the transfer source node and the transfer target node by performing a login request to the transfer target node using a transfer target machine account being one type of a domain account.

7. A computer readable recording medium storing a cluster node control program of a file server causing a computer to execute a process according to claim 1,

wherein the transferring the file service state to the transfer target node transfers the file service state using a LANMAN service.

8. A computer readable recording medium storing a cluster node control program of a file server causing a computer to execute a process according to claim 1,

wherein an account identifier and a volume identifier contained in the file service state are reserved in advance, further comprising

referring to the account identifier and the volume identifier which are reserved in advance, and avoiding that the preserved identifiers are the same as an account identifier and a volume identifier in processing to the file service request from the client.

9. A computer readable recording medium storing a cluster node control program of a filer server causing a computer to execute a process according to claim 1, further comprising

changing a signing key and a sequence number of a session between the transfer source node and the transfer target node in conformity with a SMB signature context set up in the transfer source node, after the file service state is transferred to the transfer target node.

10. A computer readable recording medium storing a cluster node control program of a filer server causing a computer to execute a process according to claim 1, further comprising

holding a SMB signature context in the transfer source node even after the network file service is transferred and synchronizing the SMB signature context with that in the transfer target node each time when the file service request is transmitted to the transfer target node, and also, performing a SMB signature using the SMB signature context when a login request is made to the transfer source node.

11. A cluster node control method of a filer server, which is executed in a computer, the method comprising:

transferring a file service state utilized by a client in a transfer source node, to a transfer target node, when an instruction to transfer a network file service between nodes of a clustering system is received; and

transmitting a file service request reached from the client to the transfer source node, to the transfer target node, after the file service state is transferred to the transfer target node.

12. A cluster node control apparatus of a filer server comprising:

state transfer means for transferring a file service state utilized by a client in a transfer source node, to a transfer target node, when an instruction to transfer a network file service between nodes setting up a clustering system is received; and

request transfer means for transmitting a file service request reached from the client to the transfer source node to the transfer target node, after the file service state is transferred to the transfer target node by the state transfer means.