Granular unmapping with variable addressing in a data store

The systems described herein are configured to enhance the efficiency of memory in a host file system with respect to hosted virtual file systems. In situations when the hosted virtual file systems use smaller file block sizes than the file block sizes of the host file system. During storage of a fi...

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Main Authors Hiregoudar, Mahesh S, Krishnamurthy, Pradeep, Shantharam, Srinivasa, Pichai, Raghavan, Desai, Asit, Aithal, Prasanna, Jangam, Prasad Rao, Branstetter, Bryan, Pasalkar, Rohan
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 21.05.2019
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:The systems described herein are configured to enhance the efficiency of memory in a host file system with respect to hosted virtual file systems. In situations when the hosted virtual file systems use smaller file block sizes than the file block sizes of the host file system. During storage of a file, a file block is assigned a block address and unmapping bits. The block address and unmapping bits are stored in a pointer block or other similar data structure associated with the file. Particularly, the block address is stored in a first address block and the unmapping bits are stored in at least one additional address block located in proximity to the block address, such that the unmap granularity of the file is not limited by the fixed size of address blocks in the system.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201715672339