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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2005
Applicants:
Jeffrey S. Kimmel, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Sunitha S. Sankar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Tomislav Grcanac, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jeffrey S. Kimmel, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Sunitha S. Sankar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Tomislav Grcanac, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A storage system includes a set of mass storage media and a plurality of functional layers that provide a data storage path between a file system and the set of mass storage media. The storage system can detect that a write issued by the file system was lost by one of the functional layers that provide the data storage path between the file system and the mass storage media.