Invention Grant
- Patent Title: On-demand operations
- Patent Title (中): 按需操作
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Application No.: US12978436Application Date: 2010-12-24
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Publication No.: US09128942B1Publication Date: 2015-09-08
- Inventor: Jeffrey Pfau , Devang K. Shah , Amber Palekar , Ashish Prakash
- Applicant: Jeffrey Pfau , Devang K. Shah , Amber Palekar , Ashish Prakash
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Cooper Legal Group, LLC
- Main IPC: G06F17/30
- IPC: G06F17/30 ; G06F3/06

Abstract:
Many applications and computing environments allow users to migrate data from a source object to a target object (e.g., a file may be cut/pasted, copied, etc.). It may be advantageous to provide users with access to the data (e.g., migrated data at the target object and/or data that has yet to be migrated from the source object) before all of the data is completely migrated (e.g., a user may otherwise have to wait hours for a 2 TB file to be copied between various data volumes). Accordingly, as provided herein, migration of a source object to a target object may be declared as completed, even though the target object may not comprise all of the data that is to be migrated. In this way, an I/O request may be satisfied based upon migrated data within the target object and/or data, not yet migrated, retrieved on-demand from the source object.
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