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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2011
Ehood Garmiza, Neve Ziv, IL;
Eyal Lotem, Omer, IL;
Assaf Nitzan, Haifa, IL;
Eliyahu Weissbrem, Rehovot, IL;
Ehood Garmiza, Neve Ziv, IL;
Eyal Lotem, Omer, IL;
Assaf Nitzan, Haifa, IL;
Eliyahu Weissbrem, Rehovot, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, including defining a snapshot referencing a source partition of a storage volume on a storage device, and receiving a request to write a block of data to the source partition. Upon receiving the write request, a delayed instant copy operation is initiated by allocating a target partition on the storage device and replacing, in the storage volume, the source partition with the target partition. A definition of a condition for completion of the delayed instant copy operation is received, and the delayed instant copy operation is completed upon the condition being met.