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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2016
Smart Modular Technologies, Inc., Newark, CA (US);
Victor Y. Tsai, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Robert Fillion, Haverhill, MA (US);
SMART Modular Technologies, Inc., Newark, CA (US);
Abstract
Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for a method of operation of a Flash-based block storage system including: transferring a first data to a logical block address; storing the first data in a physical block, of a storage array, associated with the logical block address; receiving a trim command for the logical block address; establishing a reserved physical block associated with the logical block address of the trim command; transferring second data for writing to the logical block address of the trim command; releasing the reserved physical block associated with the logical block address; and writing the second data to the logical block address.