A system and method for lazy-copy sub-volume load balancing a networked attached storage pool is provided. The system and method create a qtree on a destination file server and performs a lazy-copy of the data from the source qtree to the sparse volume qtree....http://www.google.com/patents/US7197490?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7197490 - System and method for lazy-copy sub-volume load balancing in a network attached storage pool