Jean-Pierre Bono

Replication of remote copy data for internet protocol (IP) transmission

Thin provisioning of a file system and an iSCSI LUN through a common mechanism

Queues for soft affinity code threads and hard affinity code threads for allocation of processors to execute the threads in a multi-processor system

Multi-processor system having a watchdog for interrupting the multiple processors and deferring preemption until release of spinlocks

Tiering storage between multiple classes of storage on the same container file system

Data streaming and backup systems having multiple concurrent read threads for improved small file performance

Self healing file system

Implicit container per version set

Delegated reference count base file versioning

Virtual block mapping for relocating compressed and/or encrypted file data block blocks