Metadata compaction
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12073123B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-27

    申请号:US17963077

    申请日:2022-10-10

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06F3/0661 G06F3/0608 G06F3/064 G06F3/0673

    Abstract: Techniques are provided for compacting indirect blocks. For example, an object is represented as a structure comprising data blocks within which data of the object is stored and indirect blocks comprising block numbers of where the data blocks are located in storage. Block numbers within a set of indirect blocks are compacted into a compacted indirect block comprising a base block number, a count of additional block numbers after the base block number in the compacted indirect block, and a pattern of the block numbers in the compacted indirect block. The compacted indirect block is stored into memory for processing access operations to the object. Storing compacted indirect blocks into memory allows for more block numbers to be stored within memory. In this way, the block numbers are read from memory is faster than loading the block numbers from disk.

    METADATA COMPACTION
    4.
    发明申请
    METADATA COMPACTION 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20200310697A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-01

    申请号:US16365956

    申请日:2019-03-27

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques are provided for compacting indirect blocks. For example, an object is represented as a structure comprising data blocks within which data of the object is stored and indirect blocks comprising block numbers of where the data blocks are located in storage. Block numbers within a set of indirect blocks are compacted into a compacted indirect block comprising a base block number, a count of additional block numbers after the base block number in the compacted indirect block, and a pattern of the block numbers in the compacted indirect block. The compacted indirect block is stored into memory for processing access operations to the object. Storing compacted indirect blocks into memory allows for more block numbers to be stored within memory. This improves the processing of access operations because reading the block numbers from memory is faster than loading the block numbers from disk.

    Metadata compaction
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10852994B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-01

    申请号:US16365956

    申请日:2019-03-27

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques are provided for compacting indirect blocks. For example, an object is represented as a structure comprising data blocks within which data of the object is stored and indirect blocks comprising block numbers of where the data blocks are located in storage. Block numbers within a set of indirect blocks are compacted into a compacted indirect block comprising a base block number, a count of additional block numbers after the base block number in the compacted indirect block, and a pattern of the block numbers in the compacted indirect block. The compacted indirect block is stored into memory for processing access operations to the object. Storing compacted indirect blocks into memory allows for more block numbers to be stored within memory.

    Metadata compaction
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11467774B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-11

    申请号:US17083945

    申请日:2020-10-29

    Applicant: NetApp Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques are provided for compacting indirect blocks. For example, an object is represented as a structure comprising data blocks within which data of the object is stored and indirect blocks comprising block numbers of where the data blocks are located in storage. Block numbers within a set of indirect blocks are compacted into a compacted indirect block comprising a base block number, a count of additional block numbers after the base block number in the compacted indirect block, and a pattern of the block numbers in the compacted indirect block. The compacted indirect block is stored into memory for processing access operations to the object.

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