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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2007
Jacob Cherian, Austin, TX (US);
Marcelo D. Vinante, Round Rock, TX (US);
Douglas Huang, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Jacob Cherian, Austin, TX (US);
Marcelo D. Vinante, Round Rock, TX (US);
Douglas Huang, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Dell Products, LP, Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method of recovering cached data can be used when a particular physical storage device becomes unsuitable for storing data. In one aspect, the method can include providing the information handling system including a logical volume and a cache. The cache includes data that is to be stored within a particular physical storage device. The method can also include persisting the data within a different physical storage device. In one embodiment, the different physical storage device can be used to temporarily store the data when a logical volume is inaccessible. After the particular physical storage device becomes suitable to persist the data, the logical volume can be restored. The method can further include persisting the data within the particular or a replacement physical storage device. In another aspect, a system can be configured to carry out the methods described herein.