| 摘要 |
A volume having a selected storage capacity is emulated within a computer configuration by (a) representing to an operating system of the computer configuration the presence of the volume having the selected storage capacity and addresses for reading data therefrom and writing data thereto, (b) writing data to an address of the volume by, (i) writing the data to an address of a data store with which the volume address is associated, or (ii) writing the data to an address of the data store with which no volume address is associated, and associating the volume address with that data store address, and (c) reading data from a volume address by, (i) reading the data from a data store address with which the volume address has been associated in accordance with the writing step, or (ii) returning data that has not been written to the volume in the writing step.
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