US 11,941,267 B2
Reseeding a mediator of a cross-site storage solution
Arul Valan, Karnataka (IN); Anoop Vijayan, Karnataka (IN); and Akhil Kaushik, Karnataka (IN)
Assigned to NetApp, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by NetApp, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/360,133.
Application 18/360,133 is a continuation of application No. 17/219,740, filed on Mar. 31, 2021, granted, now 11,740,811.
Prior Publication US 2023/0367494 A1, Nov. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0631 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by one or more processors of a distributed storage system, the method comprising:
determining a mediator associated with a consistency group of the distributed storage system is unavailable;
determining a change in a data replication status of the consistency group has occurred during unavailability of the mediator;
adding the changed data replication status to a list of changes to be updated when the mediator becomes available; and
precluding the mediator from acting as an arbitrator for a failover operation associated with the consistency group until the mediator has been informed of the changed data replication status.