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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2015
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Walter A. O'Brien, III, Westborough, MA (US);
Robert W. Beauchamp, Berlin, MA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
There is disclosed a technique for use in managing multi-granularity flash translation layers in solid state drives. An SSD comprising a flash translation layer (FTL) table and flash memory space is provided. The FTL table is reconfigured into a plurality of multiple sub-tables, where a first sub-table has a first logical page size and a second sub-table has a second logical page size, the first logical page size being smaller than the second logical page size. The flash memory space is reconfigured into multiple flash memory sub-spaces. The first sub-table is mapped to the first flash memory sub-space the second sub-table is mapped to the second flash memory sub-space.