Patent ID: 11954348
Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. A non-transitory machine readable medium comprising instructions, which when executed by a machine, causes the machine to:
receive, by a file system layer of a storage stack, an I/O operation to access a data block stored within a storage device managed by an underlying storage device layer;
construct, by the file system layer, a single intermediary I/O operation targeting the data block and a checksum block comprising a checksum for the data block;
transmit, by the file system layer, the single intermediary I/O operation through the storage stack to the storage layer; and
transmit, by the storage layer to the underlying storage device layer, a single request message for the data block and the checksum block from the storage device.