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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2007
Gaurav Agarwal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Susan M. Coatney, Cupertino, CA (US);
Steven S. Watanabe, San Jose, CA (US);
Alan L. Rowe, San Jose, CA (US);
Samuel M. Cramer, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gautam Dev Sharma, San Jose, CA (US);
Gaurav Agarwal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Susan M. Coatney, Cupertino, CA (US);
Steven S. Watanabe, San Jose, CA (US);
Alan L. Rowe, San Jose, CA (US);
Samuel M. Cramer, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gautam Dev Sharma, San Jose, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for determining a disk ownership model to be utilized by a storage system is disclosed. The storage system and method determines the individual disk ownership of each accessible disk to the storage system. If the number of disks utilizing a first ownership model is exceeded, the storage system utilizes the first ownership model. Otherwise, the storage system utilizes a second ownership model.