Patent 7346805 was granted and assigned to EMC on March, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for storing data includes writing the data to a temporary storage location and buffering a mirror request to copy the data from the temporary storage location to a mirror. Once all the data is present, the validity of the data is determined. If the data is valid, the mirror request is executed. Otherwise, the mirror request is deleted.