Metadata storage in unused portions of a virtual disk file
AssigneeQuantum Corporation
InventorsGregory L. Wade, J. Mitchell Haile, Bill Kan, Barry Herman
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Abstract
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and method for storing metadata to unused portions of a virtual disk file. In a particular embodiment, a method provides selecting a virtual disk file stored on a data storage volume and identifying unused portions of the virtual disk file. The method further provides writing metadata for the virtual disk file in the unused portions of the virtual disk file.
Claims18
A method of operating a data management system, comprising:
- selecting a virtual disk file;
- identifying unused portions of the virtual disk file;
- and
- writing metadata for the virtual disk file in the unused portions of the virtual disk file.
A data management system, comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- select a virtual disk file;
- identify unused portions of the virtual disk file;
- and
- write metadata for the virtual disk file in the unused portions of the virtual disk file.
A computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon for operating a data management system, wherein the instructions, when executed by the data management system, instruct the data management system to:
- select a virtual disk file;
- identify unused portions of the virtual disk file;
- and
- write metadata for the virtual disk file in the unused portions of the virtual disk file.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.