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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2011
Michael L. Kazar, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Daniel S. Nydick, Wexford, PA (US);
Richard N. Sanzi, Jr., Wexford, PA (US);
Fred Gohh, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Ronald P. Bianchini, Jr., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Benjamin Speiser, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Michael L. Kazar, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Daniel S. Nydick, Wexford, PA (US);
Richard N. Sanzi, Jr., Wexford, PA (US);
Fred Gohh, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Ronald P. Bianchini, Jr., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Benjamin Speiser, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for responding to file system requests having file IDs comprising V, a volume identifier specifying the file system being accessed, and R, an integer, specifying the file within the file system being accessed includes D disk elements in which files are stored, where D is greater than or equal to 2 and is an integer. The system includes a switching fabric having a first switching element and a second switching element, each of which are connected to each of the D disk elements. The system includes N network elements, each of which is connected to each of the switching elements of the switching fabric, where N is greater than or equal to 2 and is an integer and N+D is greater than or equal to 4.