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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2002
John Marshal Reed, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
R. Guy Lauterbach, Penn Valley, CA (US);
Michael J. Tuciarone, Cupertino, CA (US);
John Marshal Reed, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
R. Guy Lauterbach, Penn Valley, CA (US);
Michael J. Tuciarone, Cupertino, CA (US);
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a system and method to quarantine in the storage operating system and configuration information in which the storage operating system is stored in a designated partition on a removable nonvolatile memory device, such as a compact flash or a personal computer (PC) card that is interfaced with a motherboard of a filer system server. By providing for separate partitions, a failure or error arising during an upgrade to the storage operating system will not corrupt the other partitions.