Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and system for providing substantially constant-time execution of a copy operation
- Patent Title (中): 提供基本上恒定时间执行复印操作的方法和系统
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Application No.: US13875164Application Date: 2013-05-01
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Publication No.: US09182921B2Publication Date: 2015-11-10
- Inventor: Naresh Sivakumar , Dnyaneshwar Pawar , Bipul Raj , Albert Yong
- Applicant: NetApp, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Cooper Legal Group, LLC
- Main IPC: G06F17/30
- IPC: G06F17/30 ; G06F3/06

Abstract:
A system and method for providing a substantially constant-time copy operation for file system objects managed by a storage server begins by generating a snapshot of at least a portion of a data set managed by the storage server. The system then performs a copy operation in the storage server to generate a copy of the data set separate from the snapshot, on a set of block locations containing a predetermined reference value. During the copy operation to generate the copy of the data set separate from the snapshot, the system can receive from a requester a first read request directed to the copy of the data set that the copy operation is to generate. In response to the first data request, the system provides data from the snapshot to the requester by the storage server.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130311735A1 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SUBSTANTIALLY CONSTANT-TIME EXECUTION OF A COPY OPERATION Public/Granted day:2013-11-21
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