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Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 24, 2013
Applicant:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Makio Mizuno, Tokyo, JP;

Norio Shimozono, Tokyo, JP;

Sadahiro Sugimoto, Tokyo, JP;

Naoya Okada, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1451 (2013.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0685 (2013.01); G06F 12/0802 (2013.01); G06F 2201/885 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1032 (2013.01);
Abstract

A storage systemincludes a storage apparatusand a storage controllerconfigured to control the storage apparatus. The storage controller adds a predetermined flagto every predetermined size of data requested by a host computer to be written to the storage system, and stores the resultant data in a cache memoryC. Upon detecting a predetermined trigger for saving, the storage controller stores, in a nonvolatile memory, data with the flag added thereto out of the data stored in the cache memory. The storage controller detects, as unsaved data information, a data size and a storage location for data with no flag added thereto out of the data on the cache memory, and stores the detected unsaved data information in the nonvolatile memory in association with the data with the flag added thereto.


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