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PATENT NO 8200723
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12427651

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A system and a method for locating data in a physical storage volume using a unified file system, which includes a synthetic file system structure and a physical file system structure, is disclosed. Traversing the synthetic portion of the unified file system includes querying at least one user-mode database that defines the synthetic portion. The physical portion of the unified file system can be traversed to determine volume and connection information for the requested data.

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  • NETAPP, INC.;NETWORK APPLIANCE, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Sears, Steven J Westford, US 1 10

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