Abstract: A carrierless storage system enclosure includes an ejection mechanism to permit installation and removal of data storage devices (e.g., hard disk drives) without tools, carriers, and manual cabling.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 11, 2008
Publication date:
January 15, 2009
Applicant:
DATA ROBOTICS INCORPORATED
Inventors:
Geoffrey S. Barrall, Julian M. Terry, Mark J. Herbert
Abstract: A filesystem-aware storage system locates and analyzes host filesystem data structures in order to determine storage usage of the host filesystem. To this end, the storage system might locate an operating system partition, parse the operating system partion to locate its data structures, and parse the operating system data structures to locate the host filesystem data structures. The storage system manages data storage based on the storage usage of the host file system. The storage system can use the storage usage information to identify storage areas that are no longer being used by the host filesystem and reclaim those areas for additional data storage capacity. Also, the storage system can identify the types of data stored by the host filesystem and manage data storage based on the data types, such as selecting a storage layout and/or an encoding scheme for the data based on the data type.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 3, 2007
Publication date:
November 15, 2007
Applicant:
Data Robotics Incorporated
Inventors:
Julian Terry, Geoffrey Barrall, Neil Clarkson