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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2020
Filed:
May. 01, 2017
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventor:
Khanh V. Ngo, Tucson, AZ (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0617 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0685 (2013.01); G06F 3/0686 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes determining a size of a file associated with each job in a job queue of files to be migrated to one of a plurality of drives that includes at least one of each of the following: a faster drive and a relatively slower drive. The availability of a faster drive is determined. The file associated with the job in the job queue having a file size larger than a threshold is sent to the faster drive.