Use of reservation concepts in managing maintenance actions in a storage control system
OwnerJames A. Lynn, Keith Kauffmaninventors
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Abstract
A computationally implemented method, system, and product for managing maintenance activities in a storage control system are disclosed. A disk drive has a reservation status that is monitored. A reservation ID is assigned to a successful reservation request. The reservation ID of a drive request is compared to the reservation ID of a disk drive.
Claims20
A computationally implemented method comprising:
- monitoring a disk drive reservation status;
- assigning a reservation ID to a successful reservation request;
- and
- determining whether a reservation ID of a drive request matches a reservation ID of a disk drive.
A storage control system comprising:
- at least one disk drive;
- and
- a storage control processor for executing a reservation management application, the reservation management application including:
- a reservation module configured for monitoring which disk drives have a reservation,
- an assignment module configured for assigning a reservation ID to a successful reservation request, said successful reservation request is determined upon receiving a reservation request and determining there is no reservation on a disk drive, and
- a comparison module configured for determining whether a reservation ID of a drive request matches a reservation ID of a disk drive upon receiving said drive request and determining said disk drive has a reservation.
A computer program product stored on a computer readable medium usable with a programmable computer, the computer program product having computer-readable code embodied therein, the computer-readable code comprising:
- one or more instructions for monitoring a disk drive reservation status;
- one or more instructions for assigning a reservation ID to a successful reservation request, said successful reservation request determined upon receiving a reservation request and determining there is no reservation on a disk drive;
- and
- one or more instructions for determining whether a reservation ID of a drive request matches a reservation ID of a disk drive upon receiving said drive request and determining said disk drive has a reservation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.