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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Hubertus Franke, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Hillery C. Hunter, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Gokul Bhargava Kandiraju, Briarcliff Manor, NY (US);
Hartmut Erhard Penner, San Jose, CA (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A flash translation layer method, system, and computer program product, include sending a request with a type of feature and a flash characteristic of a translation table for a Solid-State disk, receiving, via a meta-flash translation layer (meta-FTL), the request and checking for a number of free blocks in a NAND chip, and instantiating a range in the NAND chip including the number of free blocks using the meta-FTL to create a compatible range of blocks for the type of feature and the flash characteristic of the translation table if the checking returns a confirmation that the number of free blocks is available.