The present invention is a method and system for associating metadata with user data in a storage array in a manner that provides independence between metadata management and a storage controller's cache block size. Metadata may be associated with user data according to multiple fashions in order to...http://www.google.com.hk/patents/US20030204670?utm_source=gb-gplus-share專利 US20030204670 - Method for loosely coupling metadata and data in a storage array
