Patent ID: 6684231
Filing Date: 2004-01-27
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A computerized method for exporting transitively related volumes in a system having multiple storage disks, each volume residing on one or the more multiple storage disks, comprising;(a) identifying a volume for exportation; (b) adding each disk resided on by the identified volume to a platter list; (c) determining whether the disks in the platter list include previously unidentified volumes; (d) if the disks in the platter list include previously unidentified volumes, identifying the previously unidentified volumes, adding all disks resided on by the previously unidentified volumes to the platter list, and repeating steps (c) and (d); and (e) if the disks in the platter list do not include previously unidentified volumes, exporting all identified volumes.