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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2008
Applicants:
Atul Goel, Foster City, CA (US);
James Leong, Hillsborough, CA (US);
Ratnesh Gupta, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Atul Goel, Foster City, CA (US);
James Leong, Hillsborough, CA (US);
Ratnesh Gupta, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) groups in a storage system are dynamically reconfigured by merging and splitting the RAID groups. When an indication of a change to data or system characteristics is received, disks in the RAID groups of the storage system can be reorganized to adapt to the change.