公开(公告)号：US20190311047A1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-10

申请号：US15947072

申请日：2018-04-06

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Jorge GUERRA DELGADO ,  Richard P. SPILLANE ,  Kapil CHOWKSEY ,  Sandeep RANGASWAMY ,  Abhishek GUPTA ,  Srinath PREMACHANDRAN

IPC: G06F17/30 ,  G06F9/455

Abstract: Embodiments described herein involve improved management of snapshots of a file system. Embodiments include copying a first root node of a first snapshot to a second snapshot, the second snapshot referencing other nodes of the first snapshot. Embodiments further include incrementing reference counts of the other nodes of the first snapshot. Embodiments further include adding a storage address of the first root node to a list. Embodiments further include, each time that a copy on write operation is performed for a node of the other nodes, adding a storage address of the node to the list and decrementing the reference count of the node. Embodiments further include iterating through the list and, for each storage address in the list, decrementing the reference count of the node corresponding to the storage address and, if the reference count of the node reaches zero, freeing storage space at the storage address.

公开(公告)号：US20190294710A1

公开(公告)日：2019-09-26

申请号：US15927025

申请日：2018-03-20

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Abhishek GUPTA ,  Rob T. JOHNSON ,  Srinath PREMACHANDRAN ,  Richard P. SPILLANE ,  Sandeep RANGASWAMY ,  Jorge GUERRA DELGADO ,  Kapil CHOWKSEY ,  Wenguang WANG

IPC: G06F17/30 ,  G06F3/06

Abstract: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include a file system process determining to a flush a node in a first tree. The first node includes a buffer structured as a second tree. The file system process generates an input/output instruction to load the buffer from a first memory to a second memory. The second tree is stored in two more non-contiguous locations in the first memory and the input/output operation includes a read operation corresponding to each of the two or more non-contiguous locations. The file system process causes the input/output instruction to be executed concurrently on the first memory.