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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2015
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Wenguang Wang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yunshan Lu, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01);
Abstract
System and method for managing storage metadata utilize a metadata data structure containing allocation information of storage blocks of a storage system in which a portion of the metadata data structure that corresponds to a group of the storage blocks can be reserved to a requesting client, which then manages the portion of the metadata data structure using a copy of the portion of the metadata data structure.