Patent ID: 8621276

Claim:
A method for file system resiliency management for a file system that has a volume, the method comprising: detecting a potential corruption of a portion of the volume while the volume is online; attempting correction of the potential corruption while the volume is online; performing spot corruption verification processing on the volume while the volume is online, wherein the spot corruption verification processing comprises: determining whether the potential corruption is actual corruption of the portion or was a false positive detection; performing proactive error scan processing on the volume while the volume is online, wherein the proactive error scan processing comprises: identifying corruption to another portion of the volume; attempting correction of the identified corruption to the other portion of the volume; and generating a corruption indication in response to a failure of the attempt to correct the identified corruption; and performing spot corruption correction processing on the portion, wherein the spot correction processing comprises attempting to correct the determined actual corruption on the volume while the volume is offline.