Checkpointing filesystem
- Mount Kisco, NY
- Irvington, NY
The present in invention is directed to a checkpointing filesystem of a distributed-memory parallel supercomputer comprising a node that accesses user data on the filesystem, the filesystem comprising an interface that is associated with a disk for storing the user data. The checkpointing filesystem provides for taking and checkpoint of the filesystem and rolling back to a previously taken checkpoint, as well as for writing user data to and deleting user data from the checkpointing filesystem. The checkpointing filesystem provides a recently written file allocation table (WFAT) for maintaining information regarding the user data written since a previously taken checkpoint and a recently deleted file allocation table (DFAT) for maintaining information regarding user data deleted from since the previously taken checkpoint, both of which are utilized by the checkpointing filesystem to take a checkpoint of the filesystem and rollback the filesystem to a previously taken checkpoint, as well as to write and delete user data from the checkpointing filesystem.
- Research Organization:
- International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- B517552
- Assignee:
- International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
- Patent Number(s):
- 6,895,416
- Application Number:
- 10/258,515
- OSTI ID:
- 949193
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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