Patent ID: 7296068

Claim:
A method of transferring ownership of a volume having a plurality of disks from a source server to a destination server, the method comprising the steps of: changing a first attribute of ownership from source server ownership to an un-owned state by writing the change to a log data structure and rewriting the first attribute of ownership on the disk, where the first attribute is a predetermined ownership sector on each disk; changing a second attribute of ownership from source ownership to an un-owned state by writing the change to a second log data structure and rewriting the second attribute of ownership on the disk, where the second attribute is small computer systems interface (SCSI) reservation; changing the first attribute of ownership from the un-owned state of ownership to destination server ownership by writing the change to a third log data structure and rewriting the first attribute of ownership on the disk; and changing the second attribute of ownership from the un-owned state to destination server ownership by writing the change to a fourth log data structure and rewriting the second attribute of ownership on the disk.