Initializing selected extents of a storage device
US6574703B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 24, 2002 |
| Grant date | Jun 3, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 24, 2022 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F3/0674
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method for initializing large portions, or extents, of a mass-storage device in the background so that such overwriting processes do not significantly affect latency as experienced by a host. The method extends the use a system intended for background copying of data from a source extent to a destination extent to that of initializing an extent on a mass-storage device. It does so by causing the system to treat the defined extent as both a source extent and as a destination extent simultaneously.
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