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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2008
Applicant:
Vijayan Rajan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Vijayan Rajan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/1027 (2013.01); G06F 12/1036 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for mapping file block numbers (FBNs) to logical block addresses (LBAs) is provided. The system and method performs the mapping of FBNs to LBAs in a file system layer of a storage operating system, thereby enabling the use of clients in a storage environment that have not been modified to incorporate mapping tables. As a result, a client may send data access requests to the storage system utilizing FBNs and have the storage system perform the appropriate mapping to LBAs.