Patent ID: 11880343
Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 18:
19. A computing device comprising:
a memory comprising machine executable code; and
a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to execute the machine executable code to cause the computing device to:
execute an incremental replication to replicate data of a file system object at a first node to a second node, wherein the incremental replication includes receive, from the first node by the second node, a stream of unordered data associated with the file system object;
match inode numbers in an inode file assigned to file system objects at the first node to a second set of inode numbers in a replica inode file of the second node to identify a matching inode number associated with the file system object;
in response to a generation number of the file system object matching a generation number associated with an inode entry for the matching inode number within the replica inode file where the match indicates that the incremental replication is adding to the file system object at the second node, create the file system object and add the file system object to the inode entry; and
in response to the generation number of the file system object mismatching the generation number associated with the inode entry where the mismatch indicates that the incremental replication is replacing the file system object at the second node, replace the file system object at the second node with the stream of unordered data.