PARITY UPDATE FOOTPRINTS KEPT ON DISK

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APP PUB NO 20070028136A1
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11163346

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Parity Update Footprints (PUFPs) are kept on the disk drives themselves (rather than in nonvolatile RAM) so that the PUFPs will move along with the RAID arrays and data they protect. This permits effective detection of and recovery from many unexpected-power-loss events, and certain other types of failures, even in a clustered-adapter configuration or with a standalone adapter that has no nonvolatile RAM or only a little nonvolatile RAM. Desirably, many Set PUFP and Clear PUFP operations can be coalesced into each write to the block on the disk which contains the PUFPs, thereby improving system performance.

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ADAPTEC INC691 MILPITAS BOULEVARD MILPITAS CA 95035

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
FORHAN, Carl Edward Rochester, MN 16 262
GALBRAITH, Robert Edward Rochester, MN 42 1044
GERHARD, Adrian Cuenin Rochester, MN 19 770
LARSON, Timothy James Byron, MN 5 76
MAITLAND, William Joseph JR Rochester, MN 3 446

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