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| 8180897 | Apparatus and method for hardware implementation or acceleration of operating system functions An apparatus in one embodiment handles service requests over a network, wherein the network utilizes a protocol. In this aspect, the apparatus includes: a network subsystem for receiving and transmitting network service requests using the network protocol; and a ser... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8112465 | System, device, and method for validating data structures in a storage system Validating a data structure includes (a) maintaining a tracking structure in a memory, the tracking structure including a corresponding status field for each table entry, the status fields having an unmarked state and a marked state; (b) processing the table entries... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8041735 | Distributed file system and method A distributed file system and method distributes file system objects across multiple self-contained volumes, where each volume is owned by a unique file system node. Logical links are used to reference a file system object between volumes. Each file system node incl... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8028115 | File system adapter for hardware implementation or acceleration of file system functions A file system adapter card that may be plugged into a host computer system for providing hardware-based file system accesses outside the purview of a host operating system running on the host computer system. The file system adapter card includes a hardware-implemen... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8006053 | System, device, and method for detecting and configuring mirror relationships in a storage system Mirror relationships between system drives may be detected and/or configured automatically by writing a predetermined data pattern to a predetermined location within a system drive and then checking one or more other system drives for a mirrored copy of the same dat... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7987162 | Data compression in a file storage system Embodiments of the present invention provide for compression of files in a filesystem. In embodiments of the present invention, a file is logically partitioned into chunks and each chunk is compressed, such that a request involving a portion of a file can be satisfi... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7509409 | Network-attached storage system, device, and method with multiple storage tiers A network-attached system, device, and method supports multiple storage tiers. Data may be migrated between storage tiers, for example, based on a data migration policy. A plurality of dedicated storage devices that provide a plurality of storage tiers having differ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7457822 | Apparatus and method for hardware-based file system A hardware-based file system includes multiple linked sub-modules that perform functions ancillary to client data handling. Each sub-module is associated with a metadata cache. A doubly-rooted structure is used to store each file system object at successive checkpoi... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7421555 | System, device, and method for managing file security attributes in a computer file storage system A system, device, and method for managing file security attributes in a computer file storage system generates a set of Windows file security attributes from a set of UNIX file security attributes. The set of Windows file security attributes includes a UNIX-specific... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7337190 | Apparatus and method for hardware-based file system A hardware-based file system includes multiple linked sub-modules that perform functions ancillary to client data handling. Each sub-module is associated with a metadata cache. A doubly-rooted structure is used to store each file system object at successive checkpoi... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7237021 | Network-attached storage system, device, and method supporting multiple storage device types A network-attached system, device, and method supports storage devices having a plurality of storage device types, such as Fibre Channel storage devices, ATA storage devices, serial attached SCSI storage devices, serial ATA storage devices, and solid stage storage d... | 06/26/2007 |
