US Patent 7660966 Location-independent RAID group virtual block management

Patent 7660966 was granted and assigned to NetApp on February, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Current Assignee

NetApp

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7660966

Date of Patent

February 9, 2010

Patent Application Number

11497590

Date Filed

August 2, 2006

Patent Primary Examiner

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Gary J Portka

Patent abstract

A storage operating system is configured to assign volume block numbers (VBNs) to a volume. The system has a plurality of disks, and each disk of the plurality of disks is assigned disk block numbers (DBNs). A raidmap is configured to map the VBNs to the DBNs of the plurality of physical disks, the mapping for a particular disk stored in a disk label for the particular disk. The disk label for the particular disk is then written to the particular disk.