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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2016
Applicant:
Hgst Netherlands B.v., Amsterdam, NL;
Inventors:
Adam Manzanares, Union City, CA (US);
Lluis Pamies-Juarez, San Jose, CA (US);
Cyril Guyot, San Jose, CA (US);
Koen De Keyser, Westrem, BE;
Mark Christiaens, Aalter, BE;
Robert Mateescu, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0643 (2013.01); G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0656 (2013.01); G06F 3/0661 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01);
Abstract
Small objects are efficiently stored with erasure codes by combining a small object with other small objects and/or large objects to form a single large object for chunking, and providing early notification of permanent storage to the sources of the objects to prevent small objects from becoming stale while waiting for additional objects to be combined.