Patent ID: 11868635
Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 13:
14. A method comprising:
performing the following in a storage system comprising a plurality of namespaces, each namespace associated with its own dedicated control block comprising (a) instructions for restricting access to the namespace only to an authenticated entity, (b) its own hoot block configured to boot the namespace even if another one of the plurality of namespaces is not bootable due to a problem with a hoot block in the another one of the plurality of namespaces and (c) copies of boot blocks of other namespaces of the plurality of namespaces, wherein a number of copies of boot blocks equals a number of the other namespaces in the plurality of namespaces:
attempting to boot the plurality of namespaces with their associated control blocks;
in response to a failure in booting a first namespace using the first namespace's control block, using a second namespace's control block to boot the first namespace; and
in response to successfully booting the first namespace, attempting to authenticate an entity to access the first namespace;

wherein different namespaces of the plurality of namespaces comprise their own dedicated control blocks.