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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2000
Kamal Emile Dimitri, Tucson, AZ (US);
John Edward Kulakowski, Tucson, AZ (US);
Rodney Jerome Means, Tucson, AZ (US);
Daniel James Winarski, Tucson, AZ (US);
Kamal Emile Dimitri, Tucson, AZ (US);
John Edward Kulakowski, Tucson, AZ (US);
Rodney Jerome Means, Tucson, AZ (US);
Daniel James Winarski, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a system, method, and program for writing data to a storage medium formatted into a plurality of zones. Each zone comprises at least one circumferential track, each track comprises a plurality of addressable sectors, and the innermost zones have fewer sectors than outermost zones. A request is received to write a file to the storage medium. A determination is made of a utilization factor for the file and one zone for the file based on the determined utilization factor. The file is written to the determined zone.