Invention Grant
US09009168B2 Technique for increasing the number of persistent consistency point images in a file system
有权
用于增加文件系统中持久一致性点图像数量的技术
- Patent Title: Technique for increasing the number of persistent consistency point images in a file system
- Patent Title (中): 用于增加文件系统中持久一致性点图像数量的技术
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Application No.: US13401469Application Date: 2012-02-21
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Publication No.: US09009168B2Publication Date: 2015-04-14
- Inventor: Emily Eng , Andy C. Kahn , John K. Edwards
- Applicant: Emily Eng , Andy C. Kahn , John K. Edwards
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Casari and McKenna LLP
- Main IPC: G06F7/00
- IPC: G06F7/00 ; G06F17/30

Abstract:
An on-disk storage arrangement increases the number of persistent consistency point images (PCPIs) that may be maintained for a volume of a storage system. The on-disk storage arrangement comprises a novel volume information (volinfo) block representing a root of the volume; the volinfo block is stored at predefined locations on disk and comprises various system wide configuration data. The volinfo block further comprises a data structure configured to provide a level of indirection that increases the number of PCPIs maintainable by a file system executing on the storage system. To that end, the data structure may be organized as an array of pointers, wherein each pointer references a block containing a snapshot root, thereby enabling efficient access to each PCPI maintained by the file system.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120150807A1 TECHNIQUE FOR INCREASING THE NUMBER OF PERSISTENT CONSISTENCY POINT IMAGES IN A FILE SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2012-06-14
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