The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2017
Applicant:
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Soumyadeb Mitra, San Jose, CA (US);
Windsor W. Hsu, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/18 (2019.01); G06F 16/172 (2019.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01); G06F 12/121 (2016.01); G06F 12/126 (2016.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/16 (2019.01); G06F 12/12 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/1873 (2019.01); G06F 12/121 (2013.01); G06F 12/126 (2013.01); G06F 16/172 (2019.01); G06F 16/278 (2019.01); G06F 12/12 (2013.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/16 (2019.01); G06F 16/18 (2019.01); G06F 2212/1028 (2013.01);
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a file system (FS) of a storage system is partitioned into a plurality of FS partitions, where each FS partition stores segments of data files. In response to a request for writing a file to the storage system, the file is stored in a first of the FS partitions that is selected based on a time attribute of the file, such that files having similar time attributes are stored in an identical FS partition.