Patent ID: 7260678

Claim:
A method for determining a disk ownership model to utilize with a storage system, the method comprising the steps of: identifying all disks accessible by the storage system; for each identified disk, reading predetermined ownership information from the identified disk and determining ownership attributes for the identified disk; for each of one or more sets of ownership attributes, determining if a number of disks with one of the one or more sets of ownership attributes exceeds a first predetermined threshold value for the set of ownership attributes; in response to determining that the number of disks with one of the one or more sets of ownership attributes exceeds the first predefined threshold value, utilizing an ownership model associated with the one of the one or more sets of the ownership attributes; and in response to determining that a number of disks with one of the one or more sets of ownership attributes does not exceed the first predetermined threshold value for any of the one or more set of ownership attributes, utilizing a predefined ownership model.