Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control – Control technique
Reexamination Certificate
2011-04-19
2011-04-19
Kim, Matt (Department: 2186)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory
Storage accessing and control
Control technique
C711S112000, C711S154000, C711SE12001, C711SE12002
Reexamination Certificate
active
07930495
ABSTRACT:
A method for resilvering a storage pool includes identifying a live block in the storage pool, determining whether a birth time associated with the live block is on a dirty time log (DTL), and resilvering the live block, if the birth time is on the DTL.
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Bonwick Jeffrey S.
Moore William H.
Chrzanowski Matthew R
Kim Matt
Oracle America Inc.
Osha • Liang LLP
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