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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 22, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Deborah A. Messing, Beit Shemesh, IL;

Harry R. McGregor, Tucscon, AZ (US);

Itzhack Goldberg, Hadera, IL;

Christopher B. Moore, Vail, AZ (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0632 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 13/1668 (2013.01); G06F 2213/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provides methods, computer program products, and a system for improving serial performance of a computer system storage volume. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to reduce a partition scheme of a storage volume to allow for a computer system to read the storage volume using additional system resources that were previously idle during a serial read operation. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to reserve random-access memory (RAM) to store metadata describing data stored on a storage volume that utilizes a reduced partition scheme. Once the serial read of the storage volume is complete, the embodiments of the present invention can revert the partition scheme back to the original partition scheme for normal, non-serial read operations.


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