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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. 24, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2017
Applicant:

Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Radek Aster, Campbell, CA (US);

Andrew R. Bernat, Mountain View, CA (US);

Yunpeng Duan, Bellevue, WA (US);

Benjamin Scholbrock, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Tsu-Hao Chang, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/16 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 16/174 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/16 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 11/1076 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G06F 16/1752 (2019.01);
Abstract

A method of using boot-time metadata in a storage system is provided. The method includes writing a fragmentation stride to a solid-state storage device of the storage system, the fragmentation stride defining a granularity on which fragmentation of erase blocks of the solid-state storage device occurs. The method includes allocating portions of erase blocks for at least one process in the storage system, in accordance with the fragmentation stride and writing boot up metadata at offsets that are based on the fragmentation stride, in the solid-state storage device.


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