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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:
Dec. 10, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 27, 2017
Applicant:

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, George Town, Grand Cayman, KY;

Inventors:

Shu Li, Bothell, WA (US);

Ming Lin, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 12/1018 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0611 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0635 (2013.01); G06F 3/0643 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0665 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 12/1018 (2013.01); G06F 15/17331 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments described herein provide a system for facilitating a lightweight distributed storage system. During operation, the system generates a data segment from a data file associated with a write operation and determines a storage key for the data segment. The storage key indicates a calculated storage path associated with a replica of the data segment. The system then determines whether a user-defined storage path is specified by a user for the data segment. If a user-defined storage path has not been specified by the user for the data segment, the system generates a data packet comprising the data segment, wherein a destination for the data packet corresponds to a target disk specified by the calculated storage path.


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