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Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 24, 2010
Applicants:

Jeffrey Pfau, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);

Devang K. Shah, San Jose, CA (US);

Amber Palekar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Ashish Prakash, RTP, NC (US);

Inventors:

Jeffrey Pfau, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);

Devang K. Shah, San Jose, CA (US);

Amber Palekar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Ashish Prakash, RTP, NC (US);

Assignee:

NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30091 (2013.01); G06F 3/0629 (2013.01); G06F 3/0647 (2013.01);
Abstract

Many applications and computing environments allow users to migrate data from a source object to a target object (e.g., a file may be cut/pasted, copied, etc.). It may be advantageous to provide users with access to the data (e.g., migrated data at the target object and/or data that has yet to be migrated from the source object) before all of the data is completely migrated (e.g., a user may otherwise have to wait hours for a 2 TB file to be copied between various data volumes). Accordingly, as provided herein, migration of a source object to a target object may be declared as completed, even though the target object may not comprise all of the data that is to be migrated. In this way, an I/O request may be satisfied based upon migrated data within the target object and/or data, not yet migrated, retrieved on-demand from the source object.


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