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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2013
Applicant:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Yuko Matsui, Tokyo, JP;
Shigeo Homma, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0629 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0661 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01);
Abstract
A storage system comprises a storage apparatus and a storage device that is a basis for a storage area provided to the storage apparatus. The storage device determines whether or not a first format that is a format of data stored in the storage device and a second format that is a format of data utilized by the storage apparatus managing the data match with each other, and performs format conversion of either converting data in the first format to data in the second format or converting data in the second format to data in the first format in a case where the first format and the second format do not match with each other.