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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2008
Windsor Wee Sun Hsu, San Jose, CA (US);
Lan Huang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael A. Ko, San Jose, CA (US);
Shauchi Ong, San Jose, CA (US);
Windsor Wee Sun Hsu, San Jose, CA (US);
Lan Huang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael A. Ko, San Jose, CA (US);
Shauchi Ong, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
According to the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a WORM storage system, the method including a sector-append capability. The method includes receiving data to be written to a WORM storage system. In addition, the method includes identifying a target sector at which the data is to be written. Also, the method includes determining if the received data can be added to the target sector. Moreover, the method includes adding the received data to the target sector if it is determined that the received data can be added to the target sector.