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Apparatus and method for managing network storage, and computer product

  • US 20050120037A1
  • Filed: 12/23/2004
  • Published: 06/02/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2002
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A network storage management apparatus that connects a client and a storage device via a network, comprising:

  • an available-field-information storing unit that manages the storage device as a collection of partial fields, wherein an identifier is allocated to each partial field, collects identifiers of available partial fields, and stores the identifiers collected as information relating to an available field;

    a field allocating unit that secures an available field based on the information relating to the available field, and from the information relating to the available field deletes the identifiers of the partial fields corresponding to the available field so as to convert the available field into an occupied field; and

    a field releasing unit that releases the occupied field that has become unnecessary so as to convert the occupied field into an available field by adding identifiers in the information relating to the available field corresponding to the partial fields of the occupied field.

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