Intel Corporation

Neil A Gabriel

Patrick McGinty

Swati Gera

Lawrence Chang

Karey Hart

Suresh Nagarajan

Vinod K Puvvada

Various embodiments for performing truncate operations in nonvolatile memory are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may include a nonvolatile memory to perform one or more truncate operations on a data file written to the nonvolatile memory and a volatile memory to track a truncate operation performed in the nonvolatile memory. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques to truncate data files in nonvolatile memory

According to some embodiments, use of a shutdown object during system initialization is disclosed. The shutdown object may be read from a non-volatile memory device and loaded into a random access memory. A plurality of headers may then be scanned from the non-volatile memory device. The shutdown object may be referenced to determine whether each of the plurality of headers includes valid data. Each of the plurality of headers that includes valid data may be represented in the random access memory.

Use of a shutdown object to improve initialization performance

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Neil A Gabriel