Patent ID: 8838548

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a host computer system, data records from a remote computer system communicably coupled to the host computer system, wherein each of the data records corresponds to a data block of a file system of the host computer system and indicates whether the data block is either committed or not committed to a storage medium communicably coupled to the file system of the remote computer system; resetting, by the host computer system, a connection between the remote computer system and the storage medium, wherein the resetting comprises powering down and then restarting both of the remote computer system and the storage medium; and subsequent to the resetting, transmitting, by the host computer system to the remote computer system, the data records previously received by the host computer system from the remote computer system; wherein the remote computer system verifies that the data records transmitted to the remote computer system from the host computer system reconcile with contents of files of the file system.