Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reserving storage space in data storage systems
- Patent Title (中): 预留数据存储系统中的存储空间
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Application No.: US13248306Application Date: 2011-09-29
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Publication No.: US08949526B1Publication Date: 2015-02-03
- Inventor: Mohamed Elayouty , Russell Laporte , Phillip H. Leef , Michael P. Gordon , Ashok Ramakrishnan
- Applicant: Mohamed Elayouty , Russell Laporte , Phillip H. Leef , Michael P. Gordon , Ashok Ramakrishnan
- Applicant Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Assignee: EMC Corporation
- Current Assignee: EMC Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Agent Deepika Bhayana; Jason A. Reyes; Krishnendu Gupta
- Main IPC: G06F12/02
- IPC: G06F12/02
Abstract:
A method is used in reserving storage space in data storage systems. A set of logical units (LUs) predefined as file based storage hardware specific LUs are reserved in a restricted access storage space of a block based storage system. The restricted access storage space is accessed by a file based storage system for storing information required for initializing the file based storage system. The file based storage system is initialized using the information stored in the file based storage hardware specific LUs.
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