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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2006
Jonathan M. Sauer, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sesidhar Baddela, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jean-marc P. Eurin, San Jose, CA (US);
Jorge Valle, Campbell, CA (US);
Jonathan M. Sauer, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sesidhar Baddela, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jean-Marc P. Eurin, San Jose, CA (US);
Jorge Valle, Campbell, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment of the invention, an apparatus and method for storage space management performs the steps including: activating a logical volume group; reading pattern-based mapping information from physical volumes in the logical volume group; and using the pattern-based mapping information to determine a target physical extent in at least one of the physical volumes for a received request.