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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
May. 20, 2008
Applicants:
Himanshu Aggarwal, Cary, NC (US);
Eric Hamilton, Durham, NC (US);
Inventors:
Himanshu Aggarwal, Cary, NC (US);
Eric Hamilton, Durham, NC (US);
Assignee:
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a system and method for flexible space reservations in a file system. An administrator of a storage system selects a fractional reserve percentage, which defines the size of the overwrite reserve that is to be maintained to ensure file writeability.