Disclosed is a method, system, program, and data structures for transferring data to a requesting application. A request is received for one or more blocks of data at contiguous addresses in a storage device. Each block of data includes customer data and metadata indicating the address of the block in...http://www.google.de/patents/US6715036?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6715036 - Method, system, and data structures for transferring blocks of data from a storage device to a requesting application
