Ereignisbenachrichtigung in einem Rechnersystem mit einer Mehrzahl von Speichergeräten

摘要

In a computing system having a plurality of storage devices (52-59), notification of an application program of a change of state in a storage device so that corrective action can be taken. A notification module (40) creates and maintains an event queue (48) for storing events corresponding to changes in the state of the storage devices. The notification module indicates to the application programs (42) that events are in the queue. The queue conditions are monitored by the notification for queue maintenance.