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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2013
Applicant:
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/108 (2013.01); G06F 11/1076 (2013.01); G06F 2211/1057 (2013.01); G06F 2211/1059 (2013.01);
Abstract
Technology is disclosed for performing background initialization on protection information enabled storage volumes or drives. In some embodiments, a storage controller generates multiple I/O requests for stripe segments of each drive (e.g., disk) of multiple drives of a RAID-based system (e.g., RAID-based disk array). The I/O requests are then sorted for each of the drives according to a pre-determined arrangement and initiated in parallel to the disks while enforcing the pre-determined arrangement. Sorting and issuing the I/O requests in the manner described herein can, for example, reduce drive head movement resulting in faster storage subsystem initialization.