Hoffman Warnick LLC
Metadata management
In one embodiment, a copy relationship is established between a storage location at a first site and a storage location at a second site, in a manner which includes selectively either 1) synchronously writing a modified metadata track from a cache to data storage if the metadata track in cache is a mixture of ones and zeros, before staging from data storage into the cache, the next track of the sequence of tracks of metadata, or 2) instead of synchronously writing from cache the modified metadata track, entering a journal entry to protect the modified metadata track in cache if the metadata track in cache is one of all ones and all zeros, so that asynchronous writing of the modified metadata track from cache is substituted for synchronous writing from cache. Other aspects are described.
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Theresa M. Mark L.
Brown Lipets