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Osama Khan

Edmund Bernard Nightingale

Jeremy Eric Elson

James Wiliamson Mickens

Bin Fan

Asim Kadav

James W Mickens

While connected to cloud storage, a computing device writes data and metadata to the cloud storage, indicates success of the write to an application of the computing device, and, after indicating success to the application, writes the data and metadata to local storage of the computing device. The data and metadata may be written to different areas of the local storage. The computing device may also determine that it has recovered from a crash or has connected to the cloud storage after operating disconnected and reconcile the local storage with the cloud storage. The reconciliation may be based at least on a comparison of the metadata stored in the area of the local storage with metadata received from the cloud storage. The cloud storage may store each item of data contiguously with its metadata as an expanded block.

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