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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2002
Arieh Don, Newton, MA (US);
Haim Kopylovitz, Brookline, MA (US);
Aviram Cohen, Lexington, MA (US);
Hana Moreshet, Framingham, MA (US);
Alexandr Veprinsky, Brookline, MA (US);
Philip E. Tamer, Westboro, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for initializing large portions, or extents, of a mass-storage device in the background so that such overwriting processes do not significantly affect latency as experienced by a host. The method extends the use a system intended for background copying of data from a source extent to a destination extent to that of initializing an extent on a mass-storage device. It does so by causing the system to treat the defined extent as both a source extent and as a destination extent simultaneously.