STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD IN STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE

• US 20160231938A1
• Filed: 01/29/2016
• Published: 08/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: NIWA, KOJI
• Application Number:
  US15/010,065
• Publication Number:
  US 20160231938A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0617 in relation to availability
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0632 by initialisation or re-initialisation of storage systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0634 by changing the state or mode of one or more devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0689 Disk arrays, e.g. RAID, JBOD

Abstract

There is provided a storage control device which performs mirroring by using a plurality of storage devices detects an activation state of each of the plurality of storage devices; and permits a Read request in a first state in which it is determined that one storage device is activated, and a Write request in a second state in which it is determined that the plurality of storage devices are activated.

Claims

1. A storage control device for controlling data stored in a first storage device and a second storage device, the storage control device comprising:

a detection unit configured to detect activation states of the first storage device and the second storage device; and

a control unit configured

to permit a first processing request, with respect to the storage devices, the first processing request capable of being processed with only activation of the first storage device, in a case where the detection unit detects that only the first storage device is activated, and

to permit processing requests including the first processing request with respect to the storage devices, in a case where the detection unit detects that the first storage device and the second storage device are activated.

2. The storage control device according to claim 1, wherein the first processing request is a Read request and the processing requests with respect to the storage devices including the first processing request include a Write request.

4. The storage control device according to claim 1, wherein in a case where notification of completion of initialization at power-on is received from the first storage device, it is determined that the first storage device is in activation.

3. A storage control device for controlling data stored in a first storage device and a second storage device, the storage control device comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive a processing request with respect to the first storage device and the second storage device; and

a control unit configured

to execute a Read request, in a case where a processing request received by the receiving unit is the Read request and it is determined that at least one storage device of the first storage device and the second storage device is in activation, and

to wait a Write request until it is determined that the first storage device and the second storage device are both activated, in a case where a processing request received by the receiving unit is the Write request and it is determined that none of the first storage device and the second storage device is in activation.

5. A control method in a storage control device for controlling data stored in a first storage device and a second storage device, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a processing request with respect to the first storage device and the second storage device;

executing a Read request, in a case where a processing request received in the receiving step is the Read request and it is determined that at least one storage device of the first storage device and the second storage device is in activation; and

waiting a Write request until it is determined that the first storage device and the second storage device are both activated, in a case where a processing request received in the receiving step is the Write request and it is determined that none of the first storage device and the second storage device is in activation.

6. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program which causes a computer to perform a control method in a storage control device for controlling data stored in a first storage device and a second storage device, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a processing request with respect to the first storage device and the second storage device;

executing a Read request, in a case where a processing request received in the receiving step is the Read request and it is determined that at least one storage device of the first storage device and the second storage device is in activation; and

waiting a Write request until it is determined that the first storage device and the second storage device are both activated, in a case where a processing request received in the receiving step is the Write request and it is determined that none of the first storage device and the second storage device is in activation.