Patent ID: 8578090

Claim:
A method for restriping data across a striped volume set, comprising: receiving a command directed to a data container striped across each volume of a plurality of volumes of the striped volume set, wherein each volume includes one or more Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) groups; determining which volume of the plurality of volumes of the striped volume set stores a stripe associated with the received command by selecting a striping rule of a plurality of striping rules associated with the striped volume set by in response to analyzing a striped volume set identifier in a file handle associated with the received command, wherein the striping rule defines a striping algorithm that specifies a manner in which data of the data container is apportioned as stripes across the plurality of volumes of the striped volume set; and forwarding the received command to a computer having a processor and serving the volume, of the striped volume set, storing the stripe associated with the command.