In a network attached cached disk storage system, data is transmitted over the network in data packets having a data length that is much smaller than the logical block size for reading or writing to disk storage. To avoid copying of data from network port buffers to the cache memory, the cache blocks...http://www.google.com.hk/patents/US6889288?utm_source=gb-gplus-share專利 US6889288 - Reducing data copy operations for writing data from a network to storage of a cached data storage system by organizing cache blocks as linked lists of data fragments