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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2004
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
The invention features a method for controlling storage of data in a plurality of storage devices each including storage blocks, for example, in a RAID array. The method includes receiving a plurality of write requests associated with data, and buffering the write requests. A file system defines a group of storage blocks, responsive to disk topology information. The group includes a plurality of storage blocks in each of the plurality of storage devices. Each data block of the data to be written is associated with a respective one of the storage blocks, for transmitting the association to the plurality of storage devices.