System and method for emulating operating system metadata to provide cross-platform access to storage volumes

摘要

A method and system are provided for emulating operating system metadata to provide cross-platform access to storage volumes. The method may include generating operating system metadata for a storage device, wherein the operating system metadata emulates a storage volume hosted under a first operating system. The method may further include making the operating system metadata available to a host computer system, wherein the host computer system runs the first operating system. The operating system metadata enables the host computer system to recognize the storage device as the storage volume hosted under the first operating system.