Patents Examined by Charcles Rones
  • Transactional file system for realizing atomic update of plural files by transactions
    Patent number: 6779001
    Abstract: A transactional file system capable of realizing atomic update of plural files by transactions. In the transactional file system, a log entry containing information for validating all updates made by transaction collectively on a stable memory device, is generated for one or more files updated on a buffer region by the transaction since a start of a processing of the transaction until a commit of the transaction. Then, the log entry is written into the stable memory device at a time of the commit of the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tatsunori Kanai, Hirokuni Yano, Toshiki Kizu, Hiroshi Yao, Seiji Maeda, Osamu Torii