Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Michael Fleischmann

Kevin Collins

Scott Spivak

Bradley Taulbee

Gary Cain

Kevin Collims

A resolve agent for providing requested file mapping information for a file on a storage device. The agent comprises an application programming interface through which file identifying information is provided to the resolve agent and the requested file mapping information provided by the resolve agent; and file system logic configured to ascertain the requested file mapping information from file data structures on the storage device according to a file system that created the file data structure on the storage device.

Providing requested file mapping information for a file on a storage device

An apparatus and method for monitoring performance of a storage device. Preferably, the apparatus is embodied in computer readable program code. The apparatus and method may intercept communications between a computer system and the storage device, wherein the communications are compared to a threshold value and/or a predicted failure of the storage device. The apparatus and method may also respond to a decline in the performance of the storage device based on the analyzed communications, and preferably prior to the predicted failure thereof.

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Michael Fleischmann