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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2011
Mohamed Elayouty, Cary, NC (US);
Russell Laporte, Webster, MA (US);
Phillip H. Leef, Brookline, MA (US);
Michael P. Gordon, Attleboro, MA (US);
Ashok Ramakrishnan, Morrisville, NC (US);
Mohamed Elayouty, Cary, NC (US);
Russell Laporte, Webster, MA (US);
Phillip H. Leef, Brookline, MA (US);
Michael P. Gordon, Attleboro, MA (US);
Ashok Ramakrishnan, Morrisville, NC (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method is used in reserving storage space in data storage systems. A set of logical units (LUs) predefined as file based storage hardware specific LUs are reserved in a restricted access storage space of a block based storage system. The restricted access storage space is accessed by a file based storage system for storing information required for initializing the file based storage system. The file based storage system is initialized using the information stored in the file based storage hardware specific LUs.