Inventor

FAIR ROBERT L

US53 patents

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FAIR ROBERT L

NETWORK APPLIANCE INC

Cloning technique for efficiently creating a copy of a volume in a storage system

Writable clone of read-only volume

Method and system for reallocating data in a file system

Online clone volume splitting technique

System and method for managing file data during consistency points

File system group consistency point

Techniques for efficient mass storage layout optimization

Block reallocation planning during read-ahead processing

Method and apparatus for coalesced multi-block read

Adaptive file readahead technique for multiple read streams

Technique for translating a hybrid virtual volume file system into a pure virtual file system data stream

Technique for translating a pure virtual file system data stream into a hybrid virtual volume

Intelligent caching of data in a storage server victim cache

Control of service workload management

Partial tag offloading for storage server victim cache

Method and apparatus for coalesced multi-block read

Efficient non-blocking storage of data in a storage server victim cache

Technique for translating a hybrid virtual volume file system into a pure virtual file system data stream

Integrating control of service during cluster failover

EMC CORP

Unified SCSI target management for performing a delayed shutdown of a service daemon in a deduplication appliance

Thin provisioning of VTL tape pools with MTree logical quotas

Technique for integrating VTL tape pools with MTree quotas

VTL adaptive commit

Method and apparatus for recovering from slow or stuck SCSI commands at a SCSI target

Technique for setting WWNN scope for multi-port fibre channel SCSI target deduplication appliances

Unified SCSI target management for managing a crashed service daemon in a deduplication appliance

Unified SCSI target management for shutting down and de-configuring a service daemon in a deduplication appliance

VTL adaptive commit

Unified SCSI target management for starting and configuring a service daemon in a deduplication appliance

Method and apparatus for reducing slow or stuck SCSI commands in a multi-service environment at a SCSI target

NETAPP INC

System and method for efficiently calculating storage required to split a clone volume

System and method for managing file data during consistency points

Capacity guarantees in a storage system

Techniques for efficient mass storage layout optimization

System and method for managing file metadata during consistency points

System and method for managing file data during consistency points

Method for detecting leaked buffer writes across file system consistency points

Adaptive file readahead based on multiple factors

Techniques for efficient mass storage layout optimization

Method and system for detecting languishing messages

FAIR ROBERT L

Multi-level buffer cache management through soft-division of a uniform buffer cache

System and method for efficiently calculating storage required to split a clone volume

Pruning a filemark cache used to cache filemark metadata for virtual tapes

Filemark cache to cache filemark metadata for virtual tapes

Technique for creating a history of tape movement in a virtual tape library

Adaptive file readahead technique for multiple read streams

EMC IP HOLDING CO LLC

Set-based mutual exclusion using object metadata tags in a storage appliance

Method for dynamic pseudofs creation and management in a network filesystem

Method for dynamic pseudofs creation and management in a network filesystem

Generic metadata tags with namespace-specific semantics in a storage appliance