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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2005
Kartik N. Raghavan, Seattle, WA (US);
Thomas G. Phillips, Bellevue, WA (US);
Bohdan Raciborski, Redmond, WA (US);
Kartik N. Raghavan, Seattle, WA (US);
Thomas G. Phillips, Bellevue, WA (US);
Bohdan Raciborski, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for managing stored data on a computer network organizes data into logical volumes, and each logical volume has a friendly name associated with it. A domain controller keeps track of the friendly names of the logical volumes and associates those friendly names with the actual physical paths of the logical volumes. When a client computer on the network wishes to access a logical volume, it sends a look-up request having the friendly name to the domain controller. The domain controller may fulfill the request by sending the path of the logical volume to the client computer.