Patent ID: 8301673

Claim:
A method for performing verification of a striped volume set, comprising: executing an operating system by a computer servicing a plurality of data containers, the plurality of data containers organized as the striped volume set that includes a plurality of constituent volumes; receiving a request at the operating system directed to a data container of the striped volume set; in response to receiving the request directed to the data container, determining whether the data container has been checked locally; in response to determining that the data container has not been checked locally, performing a local check of the data container; performing a striped volume set check to ensure that the data container is consistent among all the plurality of the constituent volumes by verifying that locally stored metadata associated with the data container is consistent with metadata stored within a container attribute volume of the striped volume set, wherein the container attribute volume is designated to the data container; and returning a message to the operating system in response to verifying the striped volume set.