US Patent Application 17727641. METHOD TO OPTIMIZE STORAGE PARTITION REDISCOVERY simplified abstract
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METHOD TO OPTIMIZE STORAGE PARTITION REDISCOVERY
Organization Name
Inventor(s)
Joel Miller of Vacaville CA (US)
Paul Nehse of Livermore CA (US)
Michael Thiels of San Martin CA (US)
Nassireddine El Yahfoufi of Georgetown TX (US)
METHOD TO OPTIMIZE STORAGE PARTITION REDISCOVERY - A simplified explanation of the abstract
- This abstract for appeared for US patent application number 17727641 Titled 'METHOD TO OPTIMIZE STORAGE PARTITION REDISCOVERY'
Simplified Explanation
The abstract describes a storage management system that includes a user device manager running on an operating system. The user device manager sends a request for partition table data to a block device and receives the first partition data. It then sends a second request for partition data to the operating system's kernel and receives the second partition data, which is cached by the kernel. The system determines if the first and second partition data are identical, and if they are different, it performs a device discovery operation on the block device.
Original Abstract Submitted
Disclosed is a storage management system comprising: sending, by a user device manager running at a user space of an operating system, a first request for partition table data to a block device; receiving, by the user device manager, first partition data of the block device; sending, by the user device manager, a second request for partition data of the block device to a kernel of the operating system; receiving, by the user device manager, second partition data from the kernel, wherein the second partition data is associated with the block device and cached by the kernel; determining whether the first partition data and the second partition data are identical; and in response to determining that the first partition data is different from the second partition data, performing a device discovery operation on the block device.
