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Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012

Filed:

Feb. 28, 2007
Applicants:

Michael Eisler, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Daniel S. Nydick, Wexford, PA (US);

Peter F. Corbett, Lexington, MA (US);

Michael Kazar, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

J. Christopher Wagner, Langley, WA (US);

Inventors:

Michael Eisler, Colorado Springs, CO (US);

Daniel S. Nydick, Wexford, PA (US);

Peter F. Corbett, Lexington, MA (US);

Michael Kazar, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

J. Christopher Wagner, Langley, WA (US);

Assignee:

NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system and method to allow a volume to appear in multiple locations in a super-namespace. A super-namespace is a hierarchy of namespaces within a storage system environment, such as a storage system cluster. The volume can appear in multiple locations in the super-namespace and/or in multiple namespaces within the super-namespace.


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