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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2006
Jason Ansel Lango, Mountain View, CA (US);
Brian Mederic Quirion, San Jose, CA (US);
Ling Zheng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Robert Lieh-yuan Tsai, Boston, MA (US);
Matthew Benjamin Amdur, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ram Kesavan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
David Grunwald, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kartik Ayyar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Robert M. English, Menlo Park, CA (US);
J. Christopher Wagner, Langley, WA (US);
Paul Eastham, Mountain View, CA (US);
Emmanuel Ackaouy, Cambridge, GB;
Ashish Prakash, Morrisville, NC (US);
Jason Ansel Lango, Mountain View, CA (US);
Brian Mederic Quirion, San Jose, CA (US);
Ling Zheng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Robert Lieh-Yuan Tsai, Boston, MA (US);
Matthew Benjamin Amdur, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ram Kesavan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
David Grunwald, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kartik Ayyar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Robert M. English, Menlo Park, CA (US);
J. Christopher Wagner, Langley, WA (US);
Paul Eastham, Mountain View, CA (US);
Emmanuel Ackaouy, Cambridge, GB;
Ashish Prakash, Morrisville, NC (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An architecture, including a file-level protocol, for supporting sparse volumes on a storage system is provided. The file-level protocol provides coherency checking for use in retrieving data stored on a backing store remote from a storage system.