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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2003
Applicants:
Peter F. Corbett, Lexington, MA (US);
Cheryl Thompson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Robert M. English, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jeffrey L. Heller, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Peter F. Corbett, Lexington, MA (US);
Cheryl Thompson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Robert M. English, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jeffrey L. Heller, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a system and method for reserving space to guarantee file writability in a file system supporting PCPIs. An administrator of a storage system implants a set of space reservation policies to ensure that clients of the storage system do not receive an out of space error in response to overwriting a section of a particular file.