Portworx by Pure Storage Assigned Patent
Resolving failed or hanging mount points in clustered storage solution for containers
By Francis Pelletier | February 10, 2022 at 2:00 pmIsrani, Dinesh, Santa Clara, CA, Jayaraman, Vinod, San Francisco, CA, and Rao, Goutham, Los Altos, CA, for “resolving failed or hanging mount points in a clustered storage solution for containers.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A clustered storage system may include potentially many different nodes, each including a storage driver and a kernel module. A node may mount a virtual storage volume for the use of a container application at the node. The storage driver and kernel module may receive a request from a storage driver at a different node and respond by indicating whether the virtual storage volume is in active use. In this way, the clustered storage system may safely but forcibly unmount a virtual storage volume having a failed or hanging mount point so that the volume may be mounted on a different node.”
The patent application was filed on December 10, 2019 (16/709,861).
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