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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2003
Arthur F. Lent, Cambridge, MA (US);
Brian Pawlowski, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Vijayan Rajan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jeffrey S. Kimmel, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Mohan Srinivasan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Arthur F. Lent, Cambridge, MA (US);
Brian Pawlowski, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Vijayan Rajan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jeffrey S. Kimmel, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Mohan Srinivasan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method enabling transparent access to blocks, such as virtual disks, stored on a storage system using a file-based protocol. The system and method traps incoming file-based protocol open commands to check for a predetermined modification to the file name. If the system and method detects the predetermined modification, then the virtual disk associated with the file name is exported to the client issuing the open command and the client receives a response from the storage system. The client, in response to receiving the response to the open command, creates a new device instantiation for reading and writing raw data to the virtual disk.