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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2007
Steven R. Kleiman, Los Altos, CA (US);
Rajesh Sundaram, Mountain View, CA (US);
Douglas P. Doucette, Freeland, WA (US);
Stephen H. Strange, Mountain View, CA (US);
Srinivasan Viswanathan, Fremont, CA (US);
Steven R. Kleiman, Los Altos, CA (US);
Rajesh Sundaram, Mountain View, CA (US);
Douglas P. Doucette, Freeland, WA (US);
Stephen H. Strange, Mountain View, CA (US);
Srinivasan Viswanathan, Fremont, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for storing data on a plurality of storage devices of a storage system is disclosed. The data is received as data blocks from a plurality of write requests. The data blocks are saved as buffered data for writing to the storage devices in a single write request. An indication is received indicating the available storage blocks on the plurality of storage devices which are available for writing. The buffered data is associated with selected storage blocks of the storage blocks which are available for writing. The buffered data is written to the selected storage blocks in a single write request.
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