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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2015
Applicant:
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Xinlei Xu, Beijing, CN;
Charles Hopkins, Upton, MA (US);
John V. Harvey, Wrentham, MA (US);
Xiongcheng Li, Beijing, CN;
Jian Gao, Beijing, CN;
Assignee:
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0888 (2016.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0888 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1032 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1044 (2013.01); G06F 2212/154 (2013.01); G06F 2212/222 (2013.01); G06F 2212/608 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method, computer program product, and computing system for reducing write operations on a flash-based cache memory system includes writing user data to a flash-based cache memory system. Initial status metadata concerning the user data is written to a RAM-based memory system. The user data is written to a backend storage system. Mapping metadata concerning the user data is written to the flash-based cache memory system.