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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2006
Zvi Gabriel Benhanokh, Brookline, MA (US);
Michael Scharland, Franklin, MA (US);
Ran Margalit, Swarthmore, PA (US);
Ishay Kedem, Brookline, MA (US);
Leonard R. Linkens, Charlton, MA (US);
William P. Powers, Jr., Sutton, MA (US);
Zvi Gabriel Benhanokh, Brookline, MA (US);
Michael Scharland, Franklin, MA (US);
Ran Margalit, Swarthmore, PA (US);
Ishay Kedem, Brookline, MA (US);
Leonard R. Linkens, Charlton, MA (US);
William P. Powers, Jr., Sutton, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method for managing data in a computer system comprises identifying a data-set that has data unit protection that is suspected of having been corrupted, suspending a data unit protection process for the data-set; deferring re-establishing the data unit protection process for the data-set until issuance of a request for an I/O operation for the data unit; and re-establishing the data unit protection process for the data-set in response to the request and before the I/O operation is conducted. The data has a data unit protection invalidity indicator for indicating that the data-set has data unit protection that is suspected of having been corrupted; and the data unit protection process is suspended in the presence of the data-set protection invalidity indicator. Meta-data protection that is suspected of having been corrupted may be used to identify a corrupted data-set.