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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2016
Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Robert H. Burcham, Overland Park, KS (US);
Geoffrey A. Holmes, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A method of balancing the data stored in a distributed file system. The method comprises analyzing the distributed file system to identify a degree of transience of files in the file system, to identify storage categories of files as being one of write once or write a plurality of times, and to identify files that are a single minimum allocatable unit in size or less, where the analyzing is performed by a data balancing application. The method further comprises determining by the data balancing application a prioritized sequence of file migration manifests, where each file migration manifest identifies a file to be migrated, the source location of the file, and the destination location of the file, where the determining is performed based on the analysis and migrating files by the data balancing application as defined in the file migration manifests in the determined sequence.