摘要 |
A managed space device and method is disclosed. To store data in the manag ed space a virtual non-volatile storage medium having a plurality of corresponding physical non-volatile storage media associated therewith is provided. Locations withi n each physical non-volatile storage medium correspond to locations within the virtual non-volatile storage medium. Then data for storage in the virtual non-volati le storage medium is provided. Once these are provided free space sufficient for storing the provided data is determined at locations within the virtual storage medium. The data is then stored at those locations and indexing information relating to the data is stored with in an index.
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