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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2004
Scott Douglas Kaiser, Burlingame, CA (US);
Par Botes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Scott Douglas Kaiser, Burlingame, CA (US);
Par Botes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Symantec Operating Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A host of a multi-device file system may instruct an external data mover implementing a third party copy to move data from one storage device to another without the host reading or writing data as part of the move. The data being moved may remain accessible through the file system after being moved. A host may instruct an external data mover to write moved data to multiple mirrored devices. A host may instruct the data mover to move data between storage classes in a multi storage class file system. A journaling file system may utilize an external data mover implementing a third party copy to move data from a system log to another storage destination and may also instruct the data mover to move metadata as well as data.