Log name exchange for recovery of protected resources

摘要

A computer network comprises first and second computers, each having a recovery facility for recovering a two-phase commit procedure and a recovery log. The log comprises a log name log which stores the names of other logs involved in a commit scope and a sync point log which stores sync point phase information. The log names are exchanged prior to a request for sync point. If a failure occurs during sync point, each recovery facility in the commit scope again exchanges log names to verify that there was not a log failure since the prior exchange. Absent a log failure, the logs are used to recover from the sync point failure. Communication facilities are interposed between the first and second computers and include log name exchange tables which record the previous exchanges of log names between the first and second computers. If a protected conversation is initialized from the first computer to the second computer and log names were not previously exchanged, then the communication facilities intercept the conversation and hold it until log names are exchanged.