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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2022
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Joel Miller, Vacaville, CA (US);
Paul Nehse, Livermore, CA (US);
Michael Thiels, San Martin, CA (US);
Nassireddine El Yahfoufi, Georgetown, TX (US);
DELL PRODUCTS L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a storage management system comprising: sending, by a user device manager running at a user space of an operating system, a first request for partition table data to a block device; receiving, by the user device manager, first partition data of the block device; sending, by the user device manager, a second request for partition data of the block device to a kernel of the operating system; receiving, by the user device manager, second partition data from the kernel, wherein the second partition data is associated with the block device and cached by the kernel; determining whether the first partition data and the second partition data are identical; and in response to determining that the first partition data is different from the second partition data, performing a device discovery operation on the block device.