Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control – Specific memory composition
Patent
1997-06-25
1999-11-16
Bragdon, Reginald G.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory
Storage accessing and control
Specific memory composition
711171, 711202, 709301, G06F 1200, G06F 1210
Patent
active
059875658
ABSTRACT:
A virtual disk simulator combines memory space from a given process address space in user space to form a virtual disk with contiguous memory space. The virtual disk may be accessed in the same manner as a physical hardware disk. The specific components of the virtual disk simulator are a virtual disk device driver in kernel space and a multi-threaded application running in user space. The virtual disk device driver supports the disk abstraction (e.g. simulation of the virtual disk having what appears to be unlimited disk space) and the multi-threaded application performs actual physical storage management in cooperation with the virtual disk device driver. The virtual disk device driver and the multi-threaded application interact using a special set of communication protocols.
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Bragdon Reginald G.
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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