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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2009
Stephen H. Strange, Mountain View, CA (US);
Scott Schoenthal, San Ramon, CA (US);
Douglas P. Doucette, Freeland, WA (US);
Srinivasan Viswanathan, Fremont, CA (US);
Stephen H. Strange, Mountain View, CA (US);
Scott Schoenthal, San Ramon, CA (US);
Douglas P. Doucette, Freeland, WA (US);
Srinivasan Viswanathan, Fremont, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer storage system is described. A range of volume block numbers (VBNs) is assigned to a volume. A range of storage device block numbers (DBNs) is assigned to each of a plurality of storage devices. A first mapping parameters are created to map a first range of VBN numbers to a first selected range of DBNs using a first portion of a new storage device. A second mapping parameters are created to map a second range of VBN numbers to a second range of DBNs on a second portion of the new storage device.