Intel Corporation

Benjamin Boyer

Ravi L Sahita

Sanjeev N Trika

Xiaoning Li

Anand S Ramalingam

Adrian R Pearson

Piotr Wysocki

Faraz A Siddiqi

Michael Mesnier

Kapil Karkra

Marcin Pioch

A system including a storage drive and a semiconductor apparatus coupled to the storage drive, is provided. The semiconductor apparatus may include one or more substrates and logic coupled to the one or more substrates, the logic coupled to the one or more substrates to: initiate managing resources of the storage drive and, if the storage drive loses capacity, determine an amount of capacity loss, create a reserved file that is associated with logical memory space in a file system, based on the amount of the capacity loss, and erase at least a portion of the reserved file so that logical memory space associated with an un-erased portion of the reserved file is usable by the storage drive.

Technology to manage capacity loss in storage drives

In one embodiment, a system comprises a processor to, in response to a determination that a write command is suspect, identify a logical address associated with the write command; and send a checkpoint command identifying the logical address to a storage device to preserve data stored in the storage device at a physical address associated with the logical address.

Method and apparatus for range based checkpoints in a storage device

Provided are a method, system, and computer readable storage medium for managing access to a storage device. A logical-to-physical mapping indicates for each logical address a physical address in the storage device having current data for the logical address and version information indicating whether there is a prior version of data for the logical address. In response to the logical-to-physical mapping indicating that there is no prior version of the data for a target logical address of a write, including information on the target physical address and the physical address indicated in the logical-to-physical mapping in checkpoint information. The version information for the target logical address is updated to indicate that there is a prior version of data. Data for the write is written to a target physical address. The logical-to-physical mapping for the target logical address is updated to indicate the target physical address.

Managing prior versions of data for logical addresses in a storage device

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Benjamin Boyer