INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE CONTROL METHOD

• US 20130042082A1
• Filed: 07/31/2012
• Published: 02/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: TAMURA, Masahisa, NOGUCHI, Yasuo, OGIHARA, Kazutaka, WATANABE, Takashi, KUMANO, Tatsuo, TSUCHIYA, Yoshihiro, OE, Kazuichi, OZAWA, Toshihiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,825,968 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2069 Management of state, configuration or failover
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2076 Synchronous techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2082 Data synchronisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/00 Accessing, addressing or allocating within memory systems or architectures digital input from, or digital output to record carriers, e.g. to disk storage units, G06F3/06

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a first storage unit and a processor. The first storage unit includes a first storage area. The processor receives a first request to write first data into the first storage area. The processor requests an external apparatus to write the first data into a second storage area in a second storage unit included in the external apparatus. The processor determines whether a first response has been received from the external apparatus. The first response indicates that the first data has been written into the second storage area. The processor writes the first data into the first storage area when the first response has been received. The processor requests, without writing the first data into the first storage area, the external apparatus to write second data stored in the first storage area into the second storage area when the first response has not been received.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a first storage unit including a first storage area; and

a processor that

receives a first request to write first data into the first storage area,

requests an external apparatus to write the first data into a second storage area in a second storage unit included in the external apparatus, the second storage area corresponding to the first storage area,

determines whether a first response has been received from the external apparatus, the first response indicating that the first data has been written into the second storage area,

writes the first data into the first storage area when it is determined that the first response has been received from the external apparatus, and

requests, without writing the first data into the first storage area, the external apparatus to write second data stored in the first storage area into the second storage area when it is determined that the first response has not been received from the external apparatus.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the processor requests the external apparatus to write the second data into the second storage area upon receiving a second request to write third data after it is determined that the first response has not been received from the external apparatus.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the processor requests the external apparatus to write the second data into the second storage area at a timing in a predetermined cycle after it is determined that the first response has not been received from the external apparatus.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the processor repeatedly requests the external apparatus to write the second data until the processor receives a second response from the external apparatus, the second response indicating that the second data has been written into the second storage area.

5. A storage control method executed by a first node included in a storage system, the first node including a first storage unit, the storage control method comprising:

receiving a first request to write first data into a first storage area in the first storage unit;

requesting a second node included in the storage system to write the first data into a second storage area in a second storage unit included in the second node, the second storage area corresponding to the first storage area;

determining whether a first response has been received from the second node, the first response indicating that the first data has been written into the second storage area;

writing, by the first node, the first data into the first storage area when it is determined that the first response has been received from the second node; and

requesting, without writing the first data into the first storage area, the second node to write second data stored in the first storage area into the second storage area when it is determined that the first response has not been received from the second node.

6. A computer-readable recording medium storing a program that causes a computer included in a storage system to execute a storage control method, the computer including a first storage unit, the storage control method comprising:

receiving a first request to write first data into a first storage area in the first storage unit;

requesting an apparatus included in the storage system to write the first data into a second storage area in a second storage unit included in the apparatus, the second storage area corresponding to the first storage area;

determining whether a first response has been received from the apparatus, the first response indicating that the first data has been written into the second storage area;

writing the first data into the first storage area when it is determined that the first response has been received from the apparatus; and

requesting, without writing the first data into the first storage area, the apparatus to write second data stored in the first storage area into the second storage area when it is determined that the first response has not been received from the apparatus.