Manufacturing process for software raid disk sets in a computer system
AssigneeDell Pruducts L.P.
InventorRichard B. Landau
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing a computer includes creating a reference two-disk software RAID pair, the software RAID pair having desired partitions mirrored by an operating system. The method also includes extracting a master image from one disk of the reference disk pair, performing a difference comparison of partitions of a target disk of the reference disk pair against the master image and obtaining a collection of differences. The method further includes writing the master image to each disk of a disk set in the computer being manufactured and applying the collection of differences to a target disk of the disk set.
Claims20
A method of manufacturing a computer comprising:
- creating a reference two-disk software RAID pair, the software RAID pair having desired partitions mirrored by an operating system;
- extracting a master image from one disk of the reference disk pair;
- performing a difference comparison of partitions of a target disk of the reference disk pair against the master image and obtaining a collection of differences;
- writing the master image to each disk of a disk set in a computer being manufactured;
- and
- applying the collection of differences to a target disk of the disk set in the computer being manufactured.
A method of manufacturing a computer comprising:
- creating a reference two-disk software RAID 1 mirror pair, the software RAID 1 mirror pair having desired partitions mirrored by an operating system;
- extracting a master image from one disk of the reference disk pair;
- performing a difference comparison of partitions of a target disk of the reference disk pair against the master image and obtaining a collection of differences, including extracting locations and contents of blocks that are different between the disks of the reference pair;
- writing the master image to each disk of a disk set in a computer being manufactured;
- and
- applying the collection of differences block by block to a target disk of said disk set in the computer being manufactured.
A computer system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a storage accessible by said processor, said storage including a software RAID mirror pair formed by:
- creating a reference two-disk software RAID pair, the software RAID pair having desired partitions mirrored by an operating system,
- extracting a master image from one disk of the reference disk pair,
- performing a difference comparison of partitions of a target disk of the reference disk pair against the master image and obtaining a collection of differences,
- writing the master image to each disk of a disk set in said computer, and
- applying the collection of differences to a target disk of the disk set in said computer.
A computer system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a storage accessible by said processor, said storage including a software RAID mirror pair formed by:
- creating a reference two-disk software RAID1 mirror pair, the software RAID pair having desired partitions mirrored by an operating system,
- extracting a master image from one disk of the reference disk pair,
- performing a difference comparison of partitions of a target disk of the reference disk pair against the master image and obtaining a collection of differences, including extracting locations and contents of blocks that are different between the disks of the reference pair,
- writing the master image to each disk of a disk set in said computer, and
- applying the collection of differences block by block to a target disk of said disk set in said computer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.