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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2012
Janet E. Adkins, Austin, TX (US);
David J. Craft, Wimberly, TX (US);
Thomas S. Mathews, Austin, TX (US);
Frank L. Nichols, Iii, Georgetown, TX (US);
Janet E. Adkins, Austin, TX (US);
David J. Craft, Wimberly, TX (US);
Thomas S. Mathews, Austin, TX (US);
Frank L. Nichols, III, Georgetown, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Mechanisms are provided for importing pre-existing data into a storage system utilizing a current storage management system that is different from an original storage management system used to create the pre-existing data. One or more data storage devices are integrated into the storage system in-place without modification of the pre-existing data stored on the one or more data storage devices. Metadata for the pre-existing data is created based on a linear progression of data in the pre-existing data. Read access requests targeting the pre-existing data are executed using the created metadata. Write access requests targeting the pre-existing data are executed by redirecting the write access requests to a copy of the pre-existing data created in another storage location.