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System and method for processing block mode I/O operations using a linear block address translation protection table

  • US 20070005815A1
  • Filed: 05/23/2005
  • Published: 01/04/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2005
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method comprising:

  • providing an adapter protection table, wherein the adapter protection table includes one or more entries having validity check values for identifying which application instances of a host system may access which storage blocks of a physical storage device;

    providing a storage block address table, wherein the storage block address table includes one or more entries identifying storage block addresses that have been allocated to application instances running on the host system;

    associating entries in the adapter protection table with the one or more entries in the storage block address table; and

    processing input/output (I/O) requests from the application instances running on the host system using the adapter protection table and storage block address table.

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